Café au lait macules are are yellowish-lightbrown hyperpigmented birthmarks on the skin. The color resembles coffee with mitl, therefore its name.
McCune-Albright syndrom | |
Café au lait spots are typical cutaneous findings in |
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Neurofibromatosis-Noonan syndrome | |
In this type of neurofibromatosis cafe-au-lait spots are also associated with physical deformations typical of Noonan syndrome. |
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Neurofibromatosis | |
Neurofibromatosis is probaly the most common disease involving cafe-au-lait spots. |
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Familial spinal neurofibromatosis | |
Typically neurofibromatosis is associated with cafe-au-lait spots. This however is not always true with the spinal form. |
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Watson syndrome | |
In Watson syndrome cafe-au-lait spots are associated with pulmonic stensis. |