PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Melody P. Chung AU - Zsuzsanna H. McMahan TI - Drs. Chung and McMahan reply AID - 10.3899/jrheum.220611 DP - 2022 Aug 15 TA - The Journal of Rheumatology PG - jrheum.220611 4099 - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2022/08/09/jrheum.220611.short 4100 - http://www.jrheum.org/content/early/2022/08/09/jrheum.220611.full AB - We appreciate the interest of Yin et al1 in our article2 on perifollicular hypopigmentation (also known as salt-and-pepper pigmentation) in systemic sclerosis (SSc) and for sharing 2 case presentations that potentially shed light on the pathogenesis of this interesting phenomenon.