226 top medical experts on Cafe-au-Lait Spots across 23 countries and 21 U.S. states, including 74 MDs (Physicians). This is based on an objective analysis of their Scientific Publications, Clinical Trials, Medicare, and NIH Grants.

  1. Cafe-au-Lait Spots: Light brown pigmented macules associated with neurofibromatosis and Albright's syndrome (see fibrous dysplasia, polyostotic).
  2. Clinical guidelines are the recommended starting point to understand initial steps and current protocols in any disease or procedure:
  3. Broader Categories (#Experts): Pigmentation Disorders (4,133).


  

        

                    


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  1. Shah, Kara N   Dermatology   Google Publications
    Department of Pediatrics and Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.  Top Hospital
    Physician 
    Medical school: University of Maryland School of Medicine (MD, 2000)
    Medicare Accepted; Medicare MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) rating: 92/100
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 52 biomedical companies, totalling $4,555.99, including $3,750 from  NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORPORATION
    Subjects: Hyperpigmentation; Skin; Skin Abnormalities
    Categories: Diagnosis; Pathology
    The diagnostic and clinical significance of café-au-lait macules. (2010)

  2. McCormick, Frank  Google Publications
    Scientist 
    Subjects: Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Membrane Proteins; Neurofibromatosis 1; Neurofibromin 1; Repressor Proteins
    Categories: Metabolism
    A shared molecular mechanism underlies the human rasopathies Legius syndrome and Neurofibromatosis-1. (2012)

  3. Stowe, Irma B  Google Publications
    Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94158, USA.
    Scientist 
    Subjects: Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Membrane Proteins; Neurofibromatosis 1; Neurofibromin 1; Repressor Proteins
    Categories: Metabolism
    A shared molecular mechanism underlies the human rasopathies Legius syndrome and Neurofibromatosis-1. (2012)

  4. Cichowski, Karen  Google Publications
    Scientist 
    Subjects: Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Membrane Proteins; Neurofibromatosis 1; Neurofibromin 1; Repressor Proteins
    Categories: Metabolism
    SPRED proteins provide a NF-ty link to Ras suppression. (2012)

  5. McClatchey, Andrea I   Google Publications
    Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Cancer Research, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA.  Top Hospital
    Scientist 
    Subjects: Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Membrane Proteins; Neurofibromatosis 1; Neurofibromin 1; Repressor Proteins
    Categories: Metabolism
    SPRED proteins provide a NF-ty link to Ras suppression. (2012)

  6. Ballerini, P  Google Publications
    Service dHématologie Biologique, Hôpital Trousseau, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
    Scientist 
    Subjects: Genes, ras; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute; Membrane Proteins; Precursor B-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma
    Categories: Genetics
    SPRED1, a RAS MAPK pathway inhibitor that causes Legius syndrome, is a tumour suppressor downregulated in paediatric acute myeloblastic leukaemia. (2015)

  7. Brems, Hilde  Google Publications
    Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
    Scientist  Highly Published  Case Reports 
    Subjects: Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Membrane Proteins; Neurofibromatosis 1; Neurofibromin 1; Mutation
    Categories: Genetics; Metabolism; Diagnosis; Physiopathology
    Review and update of SPRED1 mutations causing Legius syndrome. (2012)
    Interaction between a Domain of the Negative Regulator of the Ras-ERK Pathway, SPRED1 Protein, and the GTPase-activating Protein-related Domain of Neurofibromin Is Implicated in Legius Syndrome and Neurofibromatosis Type 1. (2016)

  8. Gallinger, Steven    Google Publications
    Physician  Case Reports 
    Subjects: Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary Nonpolyposis; Adenomatous Polyps; Astrocytoma; Brain Neoplasms; Colonic Neoplasms
    Categories: Genetics; Diagnosis
    Unifying diagnosis for adenomatous polyps, café-au-lait macules, and a brain mass? (2013)

  9. Legius, Eric  Google Publications
    Department of Human Genetics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
    Scientist  Highly Cited  Highly Published  Case Reports 
    Subjects: Neurofibromatosis 1; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Membrane Proteins; Neurofibromin 1; Mutation
    Categories: Genetics; Diagnosis; Metabolism; Physiopathology
    Review and update of SPRED1 mutations causing Legius syndrome. (2012)
    Interaction between a Domain of the Negative Regulator of the Ras-ERK Pathway, SPRED1 Protein, and the GTPase-activating Protein-related Domain of Neurofibromin Is Implicated in Legius Syndrome and Neurofibromatosis Type 1. (2016)

  10. Messiaen, Ludwine M  Google Publications
    Medical Genomics Laboratory, Department of Genetics, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama.
    Scientist  Highly Cited  Highly Published  Case Reports 
    Subjects: Neurofibromatosis 1; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Membrane Proteins; Neurofibromin 1; Sequence Deletion
    Categories: Genetics; Complications; Diagnosis; Metabolism; Epidemiology
    Connections between constitutional mismatch repair deficiency syndrome and neurofibromatosis type 1. (2017)
    Review and update of SPRED1 mutations causing Legius syndrome. (2012)

  11. Balaraman, Brundha   Dermatology  Google Publications
    Dermatology and Laser Surgery Center, Houston, Texas.
    Physician 
    Medicare MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) rating: 96/100
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 62 biomedical companies, totalling $1,015.23, including $170.09 from  AbbVie Inc.
    Subjects: Facial Dermatoses; Lasers, Gas; Low-Level Light Therapy; Patient Satisfaction
    Categories: Radiotherapy; Methods; Statistics & Numerical Data; Therapeutic Use
    Novel use of non-ablative fractional photothermolysis for café-au-lait macules in darker skin types. (2017)

  12. Pasmant, Eric   Google Publications
    Service de Génétique et Biologie Moléculaires, Hôpital Cochin, HUPC, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, 75014 Paris, France. .
    Scientist  Highly Published 
    Subjects: Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Membrane Proteins; Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; Genes, ras; Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute
    Categories: Genetics
    Review and update of SPRED1 mutations causing Legius syndrome. (2012)
    SPRED1, a RAS MAPK pathway inhibitor that causes Legius syndrome, is a tumour suppressor downregulated in paediatric acute myeloblastic leukaemia. (2015)

  13. Bhatia, Ashish C   Procedural Dermatology  Google Publications
    Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Top Hospital
    Physician  Case Reports 
    Medical school: Northeastern Ohio University College of Medicine (MD, 1999)
    Medicare Accepted; Medicare MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) rating: 86.9/100
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 78 biomedical companies, totalling $26,001.13, including $20,085.42 from  VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Subjects: Hypertrichosis; Melanoma; Skin
    Categories: Diagnosis; Pathology
    Nevus spilus: is the presence of hair associated with an increased risk for melanoma? (2016)

  14. Durno, Carol  Google Publications
    Zane Cohen Familial Gastrointestinal Cancer Registry and Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
    Scientist  Case Reports 
    Subjects: Colorectal Neoplasms, Hereditary Nonpolyposis; Adenomatous Polyps; Astrocytoma; Brain Neoplasms; Colonic Neoplasms
    Categories: Genetics; Diagnosis
    Unifying diagnosis for adenomatous polyps, café-au-lait macules, and a brain mass? (2013)

  15. Eichenfield, Lawrence F   Pediatric Dermatology  Google Publications
    Division of Pediatric and Adolescent Dermatology, Rady Childrens Hospital, San Diego, California.
    Physician  Case Reports 
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 150 biomedical companies, totalling $356,284.23, including $117,604.23 from  PFIZER INC.
    Subjects: Abnormalities, Multiple; Intellectual Disability; Melanosis; Neurofibromatosis 1
    Categories: Diagnosis
    Atypical Café-au-Lait Macules in a Patient with Koolen-de Vries Syndrome (17q21.31 Microdeletion Syndrome). (2019)

  16. Lio, Peter A   Dermatology   Google Publications
    Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.  Top Hospital
    Physician  Case Reports 
    Medical school: Harvard Medical School (MD, 2001)
    Medicare Accepted
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 177 biomedical companies, totalling $253,581.49, including $77,106.5 from  GENZYME CORPORATION
    Subjects: Facial Bones; Fibrous Dysplasia, Polyostotic; Neurofibromatosis 1; Nevus, Pigmented; Skin Neoplasms
    Categories: Diagnosis
    Brown birthmarks. (2013)

  17. Sachdev, Atul   Family Medicine  Google Publications
    Physician  Case Reports 
    Medicare MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System) rating: 92/100
    Disclosed payments in 2021 from 48 biomedical companies, totalling $5,934.09, including $5,078.73 from  Eisai Inc.
    Subjects: Retinal Diseases; Retinal Pigment Epithelium; Vitiligo
    Categories: Complications; Pathology
    Alezzandrini syndrome. (2011)

  18. Tsang, Stephen H   Ophthalmology   Google Publications
    Jonas Childrens Vision Care, and Bernard & Shirlee Brown Glaucoma Laboratory, New York, NY, USA. .
    Physician  Case Reports 
    Medical school: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (MD, 1998)
    Medicare Accepted
    Subjects: Albinism, Ocular; Hyperplasia; Retinal Pigment Epithelium
    Categories: Complications; Pathology
    Congenital grouped albinotic spots of the retinal pigment epithelium in a patient with hemihypertrophy and café au lait spots. (2018)

  19. Yoshimura, Akihiko   Google Publications
    Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
    Scientist  Highly Published  Case Reports 
    Subjects: Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing; Conditioning, Operant; Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins; Membrane Proteins; Models, Molecular
    Categories: Genetics; Metabolism
    Interaction between a Domain of the Negative Regulator of the Ras-ERK Pathway, SPRED1 Protein, and the GTPase-activating Protein-related Domain of Neurofibromin Is Implicated in Legius Syndrome and Neurofibromatosis Type 1. (2016)
    Legius syndrome in fourteen families. (2011)

  20. Artzi, Ofir     Google Publications
    Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.
    Physician 
    Subjects: Cicatrix; Lasers, Solid-State; Lentigo; Low-Level Light Therapy; Nevus
    Categories: Radiotherapy; Methods; Surgery; Therapeutic Use
    Picosecond 532-nm neodymium-doped yttrium aluminium garnet laser-a novel and promising modality for the treatment of café-au-lait macules. (2018)
    Retrospective photographic review of nontattoo indications treated by picosecond laser. (2020)

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