Glomerulonephritis associated with Staphylococcus albus in a Spitz Holter valve.

and in the right 10-5 g. All tumours were shown to be neuroblastomas. The fifth child was carefully followed prospectively because of the extraordinary family history. At the age of 5 months a tumour mass was detected radiologicaUy in the thorax at the level of T8. This was resected and shown to be yet another neuroblastoma. This child was vigorously treated and is well, now aged 4 years (J. Chatten, personal communication, 1969). In this family there was also evidence of neural crest anomalies on the father's side, in that the father and 3 of his sibs had cafd-au-lait spots. This evidence makes it difficult to reject the idea that some genetic factor may play a part in the aetiology of at least some neuroblastomas.

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