Cafe au lait spots
Last Updated: 2020-08-13
ICD11: LC1Y
Last Updated: 2020-08-13
Author(s): Anzengruber F., Navarini A.
ICD11: LC1Y
Café au lait macules.
Congenital, sharply defined, homogeneous, light brown spots.
Prevalence: up to 20% (in light-skinned populations).
In about 3% of all newborns.
Sharp, but irregularly limited, homogenous, oval, light brown, milky coffee-coloured maculae, up to palm size.
Avoid common mistakes:
Basal hyperpigmentation, no multiplication of melanocytes, occasionally with giant melanosomes (electron microscopy).
No therapy necessary.
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