Allwork S P
Department of Surgery, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK.
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 1988;2(6):386-92. doi: 10.1016/1010-7940(88)90040-1.
1988 marks the centenary of the cognomen "tetralogy of Fallot". Fallot's works are often quoted and translated without mentioning that it was he who applied the noun "tetralogy" to the malformation. This new translation shows that his contribution to the morbid anatomy was not great, but he was unknowningly responsible for providing a unifying concept and a name for the commonest of all cyanotic congenital heart defects.
