An approach to café au lait macules in primary care setting

Café au lait macules (CALMs), if solitary, are benign lesion with no clinical meaning, and are common in the general population. Multiple CALMs may be the hallmark of some disorders and need to be assessed by an interprofessional team. The diagnosis and evaluation of a patient with a suspected condi...

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Autores principales: Almuhaidib, Seereen R., Aldulijan, Fajar A., Alkanaan, Najlaa A., Almulhim, Abdulmohsin K., Alyami, Khalid S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8496705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34703383
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfcm.jfcm_161_21
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author Almuhaidib, Seereen R.
Aldulijan, Fajar A.
Alkanaan, Najlaa A.
Almulhim, Abdulmohsin K.
Alyami, Khalid S.
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description Café au lait macules (CALMs), if solitary, are benign lesion with no clinical meaning, and are common in the general population. Multiple CALMs may be the hallmark of some disorders and need to be assessed by an interprofessional team. The diagnosis and evaluation of a patient with a suspected condition may include a team of pediatric neurologists, dermatologists, ophthalmologists, geneticists, and orthopedic surgeons. To evaluate the progression of the disease, an annual follow-up is required.
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spelling pubmed-84967052021-10-25 An approach to café au lait macules in primary care setting Almuhaidib, Seereen R. Aldulijan, Fajar A. Alkanaan, Najlaa A. Almulhim, Abdulmohsin K. Alyami, Khalid S. J Family Community Med Case Report Café au lait macules (CALMs), if solitary, are benign lesion with no clinical meaning, and are common in the general population. Multiple CALMs may be the hallmark of some disorders and need to be assessed by an interprofessional team. The diagnosis and evaluation of a patient with a suspected condition may include a team of pediatric neurologists, dermatologists, ophthalmologists, geneticists, and orthopedic surgeons. To evaluate the progression of the disease, an annual follow-up is required. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021 2021-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8496705/ /pubmed/34703383 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfcm.jfcm_161_21 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Family and Community Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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