Saal Bulas syndrome

Saal Bulas syndrome is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Saal Bulas syndrome, or a subtype of Saal Bulas syndrome, affects fewer than 200,000 people in the US population.

Signs and symptoms
This syndrome consists of ectrodactyly or lobster-like hands, diaphragmatic hernia and absence of the corpus callosum.

In addition to these the following problems may also be present.
 * abnormal alimentary tract
 * cardiac septal defect
 * low hair line in front
 * oligodactyly or missing fingers
 * respiratory distress
 * stillbirth/neonatal death

History
The syndrome was first described by American paediatricians Howard M. Saal and Dorothy I. Bulas in 1995.