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Cafe au lait birthmarks in young baby
My niece is 2 and half months old. She has several cafe au lait spots. There are around 5 big spots on her body and 5 smaller ones. I have read online that it could be a symptom of neurofibromatosis nerve tumor which is a genetic disorder. As far as we know none in our family have that disorder. So please let us know how should we proceed the diagnosis of my niece. What precautionary steps we have to take in future. What is the probability of kids having such spots and having the nerve tumor
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Although most café-au-lait present as 1 or 2 spots in an otherwise healthy child, the presence of multiple café-au-lait, large segmental café-au-lait, associated facial dysmorphism, other cutaneous anomalies, or unusual findings on physical examination should suggest the possibility of an associated syndrome. While neurofibromatosis type 1 is the most common syndrome seen in children with multiple café-au-lait, other syndromes associated with one or more café-au-lait include McCune-Albright syndrome, Legius syndrome, Noonan syndrome and other neuro-cardio-facialcutaneous syndromes, ring chromosome syndromes, and constitutional mismatch repair deficiency syndrome
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