Abstract:In a previous paper mention was made of a girl with cyanotic congenital heart disease and a pulsatile tumour under the umbilicus (Astley and Parsons, 1953). This child died in Birmingham Children's Hospital in 1950, but the condition was thought to be a chance monstrosity until 1952, when Dr. Helen Taussig referred in a letter to another example of this condition. In 1955 both Dr. Catherine Neill and Dr. James Brown drew my attention to descriptions of other similar cases. CASE REPORT M. A., the fifth child of… Show more
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