Medicine:Reardon-Hall-Slaney syndrome

Reardon-Hall-Slaney syndrome
Other names	mesomelic dysplasia with cleft palate and camptodactyly syndrome, mesomelic limb shortening and bowing, mesomelic dwarfism cleft palate camptodactyly
Specialty	Medical genetics
Symptoms	dwarfism due to limb shortening, camptodactyly and a cleft palate
Usual onset	Birth
Duration	Life-long
Causes	Autosomal recessive genetic mutation
Differential diagnosis	Idiopathic cleft palate, idiopathic short stature, dismelia
Prevention	none
Prognosis	good
Frequency	very rare, only 2 cases have been recorded in medical literature

Reardon-Hall-Slaney syndrome, also known as mesomelic dwarfism-cleft palate-camptodactyly is a rare genetic disorder which is characterized by mesomelic limb shortening and bowing, finger camptodactyly, skin dimpling, retrognathia and mandibular hypoplasia. Only 2 cases of this syndrome have been described in medical literature, both of those cases being a brother and sister who were born to consanguineous parents. This disorder is inherited in an autosomal recessive fashion.