Congenital dermoid cyst of the anterior fontanel in mestizo-mulatto children

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

[Walter] Plecker was obsessed with white racial purity, a cause he clearly connected to his belief that the United States was a white man’s country. In a 1924 speech before the American Public Health Association, Plecker claimed that when the English, Dutch and Scottish landed on the shores of North America, they came “to found a civilization of the highest type, not to mix their blood with the savages of the land, not to originate a mongrel population.” The fatal error, he believed, was made in 1619 when the Dutch introduced African slaves to North America. “The problem was not slavery,” he told his audience, “but the presence of the negro in what should be a white man’s land.”

Susan Pearson, “Birth certificates have always been a weapon for white supremacists,” The Washington Post, September 11, 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/11/birth-certificates-have-always-been-weapon-white-supremacists/.

Congenital dermoid cyst of the anterior fontanel in mestizo-mulatto children

Congenital dermoid cyst of the anterior fontanel in mestizo-mulatto children

Child’s Nervous System
Volume 17, Number 6 (2001)
pages 353-355
DOI: 10.1007/s003810000419

Sonia Fermín
Section of Neurosurgery
Hospital Infancy Dr. R. Reid C, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

R. Fernández-Guerra
Section of Neurosurgery
Hospital Infancy Dr. R. Reid C, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

O. López-Camacho
Section of Neurosurgery.
Hospital Infantil Dr. Arturo Grullon, Santiago, Dominican Republic

R. Alvarez
Section of Neurosurgery.
Hospital Infantil Dr. Arturo Grullon, Santiago, Dominican Republic

Objects: Twenty-seven cases of histologically confirmed congenital dermoid cysts of the anterior fontanel in children are reported. Methods: The age, sex and race of each patient was recorded. Conclusions: Ages ranged between 2 months and 6 years. There was a female predominance, and 77.7% of these patients were children of mixed race. Surgical excision resulted in complete cure without complications or recurrences.

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Tags: Child’s Nervous System, O. López-Camacho, R. Alvarez, R. Fernández-Guerra, Sonia Fermín

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