Jeune Homme au Café

A child with axillary freckling and café au lait spots.

Pulmonary stenosis, café-au-lait spots, and dull intelligence.

Of the many abnormalities that have been reported in association with multiple caf&-au-lait spots, congenital cardiac anomalies are extremely rare. The purpose of this paper is to report three families in which there were children with pulmonary valvular stenosis, who were mentally dull and also had cafe-au-lait spots inherited as an autosomal dominant, as in von Recklinghausen's disease (VRD)....

Leucémie aiguë lymphoblastique révélée par une atteinte du sinus caverneux chez un jeune homme

L'atteinte du sinus caverneux au cours des leucémies aigues est rare et peut se faire par extension directe ou via une dissémination hématogène. L'aspect en imagerie n'est pas pathognomonique mais reste évocateur : le scanner montre une infiltration tissulaire du sinus caverneux, l'IRM est plus performante montrant un hypo signal T2 de cette infiltration, avec restriction de la diffusion et pri...

Orbital neurilemmoma with café-au-lait pigmentation of the skin.

Examination.-The left eye was normal with visual acuity 6/12. The right eye showed proptosis 20 mm. (left 15 mm.), and deviated outwards with limitation of ocular movements inwards. The fundus showed optic atrophy and the visual acuity was hand movements. A firm mass was felt in the inner side of the orbit extending backwards. Surgery.-Through a medial fomix conjunctival incision the tumour was...

Diagnostic value of the café-au-lait spot in children.

The significance of the cafe-au-lait spot in the diagnosis of certain disorders of childhood is still not as widely appreciated as it should be, partly due to lack of information as to the normal incidence of such pigmentation, and partly to confusion over its relation to other forms of congenital pigmentation. The varieties of congenital melanin pigmentation of the skin consist of a number of ...