Café au lait spot

Café au lait spot
Classification and external resources
File:CALSpot.jpg 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 Café au lait macules 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."

Associated conditions

File:NF-1-Tache cafe-au-lait.jpg

Neurofibromatosis type I café au lait spot

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

See also

• Birthmark
• Nevus
• List of cutaneous conditions

External links

• eMedicine
• MAGIC Foundation

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