atrophie blanche

Small smooth ivory-white areas with hyperpigmented borders and telangiectasis, developing into atrophic stellate scars; seen especially on the legs and ankles of middle-aged women, and associated with livedo reticularis and dermal hyalinizing vasculitis. [Fr.]

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(blahnsh) [“white atrophy”] a late stage of livedoid vasculitis characterized by white, smooth, atrophic scar tissue with telangiectasia within a hyperpigmented areola, usually seen on the ankles of middle-aged women. Called also white atrophy.