Café au lait spot
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| Café au lait spot | |
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| Classification and external resources | |
 A café au lait spot on a patient's left cheek. |
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| 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. They are also called "giraffe spots."
[edit] Associated conditions
While café au lait spots do not cause any ailment themselves, having multiple spots has been linked with neurofibromatosis and the rare McCune-Albright syndrome. Specifically, having six or more café au lait spots greater than 5 mm in diameter before puberty, or greater than 15 mm in diameter after puberty, are cardinal diagnostic features of neurofibromatosis type I.
Other syndromes that may include café au lait spots:
- Von Hippel – Lindau disease
- Fanconi anemia
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Silver-Russell dwarfism
- Ataxia telangiectasia
- Bloom syndrome
- Basal cell nevus syndrome
- Gaucher disease
- Chédiak-Higashi syndrome
- Hunter syndrome
- Marfan's syndrome
- Maffucci syndrome
- McCune-Albright syndrome
- Peutz-Jeghers syndrome
- Multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2
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