“…The first description in English of an adenomatoid hamartoma was by Harris and Schattenberg (1942) who gave an account of two cases of single multicystic pulmonary Received for publication 11 September 1968. tumours in neonates. There have since been at least 18 further cases reported in English, including those of Ch'in and Tang (1949), Jones (1949), Thomas (1949), Graham andSingleton (1955), Craig, Kirkpatrick, andNeuhauser (1956), Gottschalk and Abramson (1957), Bain (1959), Goodyear and Shillitoe (1959), Spector, Claireaux, and Williams (1960), Kwittken and Reiner (1962), Nanson (1962), and Belanger, La Fl1che, and Picard (1964). Ch'in and Tang (1949), in their extensive review of the literature, noted that the first report of a case of a congenital adenomatoid malformation of the lung was by Stoerk (1897), and mentioned 10 other cases which were reported in the German literature between 1905and 1928.…”