[Current status of ashy dermatosis. Synonym--erythema dyschromicum perstans].

A clinical, histopathological, therapeutical and epidemiologic review of Ashy Dermatosis is done. This research has been taken from scientific publications, computers and personal communications. In twenty five years of scientific medical investigations it has not been determined its truth etiology , nor its therapeutic; this confirms it, as a new nosologic entity well defined. The epidemiologic researches are concludent that this is not a tropical disease exclusively, but one of all over the world. We hope to obtain more references on this dermatosis throughout the Sessions of Specialties of CILAD regarding this disease.