Laboratory for Molecular Diagnostics
Center for Nephrology and Metabolic Disorders
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 | |
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Café au lait spots are typical cutaneous findings in |
| Neurofibromatosis-Noonan syndrome | |
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In this type of neurofibromatosis cafe-au-lait spots are also associated with physical deformations typical of Noonan syndrome. |
| Neurofibromatosis | |
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Neurofibromatosis is probaly the most common disease involving cafe-au-lait spots. |
| Familial spinal neurofibromatosis | |
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Typically neurofibromatosis is associated with cafe-au-lait spots. This however is not always true with the spinal form. |
| Watson syndrome | |
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In Watson syndrome cafe-au-lait spots are associated with pulmonic stensis. |
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