Saal Bulas syndrome


Saal Bulas syndrome is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. 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.

Treatment

History

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