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ash-leaf macule

ash-leaf macule

a hypopigmented, often ash-leaf-shaped macule that is present at birth in many patients with tuberous sclerosis.
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ash-leaf mac·ule

(ash'lēf mak'yūl)
A hypopigmented, often ash-leaf-shaped macule that is present at birth in many patients with tuberous sclerosis.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
References in periodicals archive
Over the right arm 3-4 ash-leaf macule were present.
Children of affected parent should be offered a skin examination for ash-leaf macule, renal & liver ultrasound and cardiac ultrasound at mutual consultation.
This neuro-cutaneous syndrome also presents with ash-leaf macules, hamartomas, shagreen patches, periungual fibromas and angiofibromas.
Clinical examination revealed ash-leaf macules over the lumbo-sacral region, facial angiofibroma and shagreen patch over the back.
He had three small cafe au lait macules elsewhere on his body, but he had no axillary freckling, no ash-leaf macules, and no tuberous growths of neurofibromatosis.
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