Mothers' experiences and perceptions about care provided during home deliveries in Alwa sub county, Kaberamaido district, Uganda- a qualitative study.

Introduction: In Uganda 27% of deliveries take place outside a health facility. The existing gaps in quality of maternal and newborn health care must be addressed for Uganda to attain its health targets and consequently its economic targets. Some of the gaps include but are not limited to; ill-equipped healthcare facilities in rural settings, inadequate client/customer care skills by healthcare providers, and health worker absenteeism especially in the night hours.

Verruca vulgaris: novel treatment with a 1064 nm Nd:YAG laser.

Background: Verruca Vulgaris (VV) is common benign neoplasm. However, it can present a therapeutic challenge. Previous studies have suggested that the Nd-YAG laser may be beneficial in the management of warts.

Pagetoid reticulosis in a prepubescent boy successfully treated with photodynamic therapy.

Pagetoid reticulosis or Woringer-Kolopp disease (WKD) is a rare variant of mycosis fungoides, consisting of localized patches or plaques containing intraepidermal proliferations of neoplastic T cells in a pagetoid distribution (similar to that of the adenocarcinomatous cells found in Paget disease of the nipple), which typically affects middle-aged and elderly men. We report a trial of photodynamic therapy (PDT) with topical aminolaevulinic acid (ALA), carried out on a 10-year-old boy with a solitary lesion of WKD on his foot, to avoid the long-term problems associated with the typical treatments for WKD of surgery and/or local irradiation. The plaque progressively flattened during treatment, and after nine PDT sessions over 13 months, the patient was clinically free of disease.

Primary cutaneous follicle center lymphoma in the setting of chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

Primary cutaneous malignancies arising in association with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) are notable for their atypical clinical and histological presentation. We report a 69-year-old man with a 17-year history of CLL who presented for evaluation of a well-defined red to violaceous nodule with a central depressed scar on the left lower extremity. Microscopic examination of a punch biopsy revealed an infiltrate of predominantly small lymphocytes with scattered large, atypical epithelioid cells.