“…Age of onset ranges from birth to 2 years, and one case with intrauterine tachycardia has been reported [Kearney et al, 19871. In the f i s t 26 cases reported [Wegman and Egbert, 1935;Voth, 1962;Ross and Belton, 1968;Reid et al, 1968;MacMahon, 1971;Haese et al, 1972;Kauffman et al, 1972;Bove and Schwartz, 1973;Deacon et al, 1974;James et al, 1975;Ferrans et al, 1976;Bruton et al, 1977;Witzleben and Pinto, 1978;Amini et al, 1980;Radford and Chalk, 1980;Silver et al, 1980;Becker and Anderson, 1981;Zimmerman et al, 1982;Saffitz et al, 19831, the diagnosis was made at necropsy, and no child survived longer than 9 months after onset of dysrhythmias. McGregor et al, [1984] reported the first case to be diagnosed during life and treated successfully with the removal of a single focus of oncocytic cells.…”