cafe-au-lait spots

ca·fé-au-lait spots

(ka-fā'ō-lā' spots)

Pigmented cutaneous lesions, ranging from light to dark brown; due to excess of melanosomes in the malpighian cells, rather than to an excess of melanocytes; major cutaneous manifestation of neurofibromatosis (von Recklinghausen disease).

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