Café au lait stains
Last Updated: 2023-07-07
Author(s): Anzengruber F., Navarini A.
ICD11: LC1Y
Last Updated: 2023-07-07
Author(s): Anzengruber F., Navarini A.
ICD11: LC1Y
Milk coffee stains
Sharply but irregularly circumscribed, up to palm-sized, homogeneous, oval, light-brown, milk-coffee-coloured macules.
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Basal hyperpigmentation, proliferation of melanocytes in neurofibromatosis type 1 and LEOPARD syndrome, but no proliferation of melanocytes in sporadic café-au-lait macules. Occasionally giant melanosomes (electron microscopy)
Growth in size during childhood.
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