“…found 17 cases of lymphangioma of the tube, only 3 of which were from the American continent, and they discussed at some length the presence of cuboidal and columnar cells in the tumour. They made it clear that they had difficulty in reconciling the presence of these cells in what they regarded as a tumour of endothelial origin and, what is more, went on to say that epithelial-like cells of the same type were found in the previously recorded cases of Hohne (1901), Dienst (1905), Kermauner (1907), Franz (1910), Dietrich (1918), Schiffman (1929), Nicod (1934), and Szathmary (1937). This disclosure puts it beyond doubt that many of the so-called lymphangiomas in the older literature were, in fact, adenomatoid tumours.…”