Café au lait spot
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| Café au lait spot Classification and external resources |
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| A café au lait spot on a patient's left cheek. | |
| ICD-10 | L81.3 |
| ICD-9 | 709.09 |
| DiseasesDB | 16118 |
| eMedicine | ped/2754 |
| MeSH | D019080 |
Café au lait spots or cafe-au-lait spots (CAL) are pigmented birthmarks. The name café au lait is French for "coffee with milk" and refers to their light-brown color.
While café au lait spots are usually not associated with any medical problems, having many (three or more) such spots is linked with neurofibromatosis and the rare McCune-Albright syndrome.
Also, having six or more of such spots greater than 5 mm in diameter prepubertal or greater than 15 mm in diameter postpubertal children is a cardinal diagnostic feature of Neurofibromatosis type I.
Other syndromes that may include Cafe au lait spots:
- Fanconi anemia
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Russell-Silver syndrome (Silver-Russell dwarfism)
- Ataxia telangiectasia
- Bloom syndrome
- Basal cell nevus syndrome
- Gaucher disease
- Chédiak-Higashi syndrome
- Hunter syndrome
- Maffucci syndrome
- McCune-Albright syndrome
- Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
- Multiple mucosal neuroma syndrome (Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2)
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