Café au lait spot
| Café au lait spot | |
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| Specialty | Dermatology  |
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 1.5 mm in diameter prepubertal or greater than 5 mm in diameter postpubertal children is essentially diagnostic of neurofibromatosis.
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