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 Café au lait macules are pigmented birthmarks.[1] The name café au lait is French for "milky coffee" and refers to their light-brown color. They are also called "giraffe spots" or "coast of Maine spots."[2]
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[edit] Etiology
Café au lait spots can arise from diverse and unrelated causes:[3][4]
- 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, is a diagnostic feature of neurofibromatosis type I, but other features are required to diagnose NF-1.
- Familial multiple café au lait spots have been observed without NF-1 diagnosis.[5]
- They can be caused by vitiligo in the rare McCune-Albright syndrome.[6]
- Legius syndrome
- Tuberous sclerosis
- Fanconi anemia, a rare genetic disease.
- Idiopathic
- Ataxia telangiectasia
- Basal cell nevus syndrome
- Benign congenital skin lesion
- Bloom syndrome
- Chediak Higashi syndrome
- Congenital naevus
- Gaucher disease
- Hunter syndrome
- Maffucci syndrome
- Multiple mucosal neuroma syndrome
- Russell-Silver syndrome
- Watson syndrome
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
[edit] Diagnosis
Diagnosis is visual with measurement of spot size and count of number of spots having clinical significance for diagnosis of associated disorders such as Neurofibromatosis type I.
[edit] Prognosis
Café au lait spots are benign and do not cause any ailment themselves.
[edit] Treatment
They can be treated with lasers.[7]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Plensdorf S, Martinez J (January 2009). "Common pigmentation disorders". American Family Physician 79 (2): 109–16. PMID 19178061. http://www.aafp.org/link_out?pmid=19178061.
- ^ coast of Maine spots - General Practice Notebook
- ^ "Cafe Au Lait Spots", by William D James, MD
- ^ Cafe Au Lait Spots
- ^ "Familial Multiple Cafe au lait Spots" by Sheryl L. Arnsmeier, MS; Vincent M. Riccardi, MD; Amy S. Paller, MD, Arch Dermatol. 1994;130(11):1425-1426
- ^ "Café-au-lait spots caused by vitiligo in McCune-Albright syndrome", by Whyte MP, Podgornik MN, Zerega J, Reinus WR. J Bone Miner Res. 2000 Dec;15(12):2521-3. PMID 11127218
- ^ "Laser Treatment of Benign Pigmented Lesions", by Noah S Scheinfeld, MD, JD, FAAD
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