BACKGROUND Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) is a key component of the roadmap adopted by the Nigerian government to address the high maternal and child mortality in the country. OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to appraise the participation of midwives in BCC at the first level of health care in Kaduna State, Nigeria before planning a context specific and sustainable BCC capacity b...

The body-centered cubic (BCC) lattice is the optimal three-dimensional sampling lattice. Its optimality stems from the fact that its dual, the face-centered cubic (FCC) lattice, achieves the highest sphere-packing efficiency. In order to approximate a scalar-valued function from samples that reside on a BCC lattice, spline-like compact kernels have been recently proposed. The lattice translates...

BACKGROUND AND DESIGN Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) of the skin is the most common neoplasm in white populations, and solar radiation is generally accepted to be the dominant environmental risk factor for this disease. However, little information is available on the nature of the relationship between BCC and sunlight. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the nature of the relationship between...

IMPORTANCE Fluorescence confocal microscopy (FCM) represents a first step toward a rapid "bedside pathology" in the Mohs surgery setting and in other fields of general pathology. OBJECTIVE To describe and validate FCM criteria for the main basal cell carcinoma (BCC) subtypes and to demonstrate the overall agreement with classic pathologic analysis of hematoxylin-eosin-stained samples. DESIGN ...

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) incidence is increasing, particularly among adults under the age of 40 years. Pigment-related characteristics are associated with BCC in older populations, but epidemiologic studies among younger individuals and analyses of phenotype-genotype interactions are limited. We examined self-reported phenotypes and melanocortin 1 receptor gene (MC1R) variants in relation to ...

In India, there are no precise reports of the prevalence of Burkholderia cepacia complex (BCC) infections due to the lack of awareness and difficulty in identification by routine clinical laboratories. In most cases, BCC has been ambiguously reported as nonfermentative Gram-negative bacilli (NFGNB) or simply Pseudomonas spp.1,2. For this reason, reports of disease due to BCC are rare and BCC ha...

clinical and histopathological features of basal cell carcinoma (bcc) may differ according to the type of carcinogen involved. bcc arising from radiotherapy treatment has high incidence and its clinical and histopathological features may be different from bccs caused by other carcinogens. the aim of our study was to investigate any possible association between specific histopathological or clin...

Epidemiologic research has shown that cutaneous markers of photo-damage are associated with risk of basal cell carcinoma (BCC). However, there has been no previous attempt to calculate pooled risk estimates. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis after extracting relevant studies published up to January 2013 from five electronic databases. Eligible studies were those that permitted ...

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common malignancy worldwide, arising from non-keratinizing cells within the basal layer of the epidermis. The incidence of BCC continues to rise annually, increasing the burden of management of these carcinomas and the morbidity associated with their treatment. While surgical interventions such as Mohs micrographic surgery and surgical excision are the sta...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa leishmaniasis is a protozoan infection due to organisms of the genus leishmania. the differential diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis includes arthropod bites, basal cell carcinoma (bcc) and other malignancies. bcc is the most common form of skin cancer. we present a case of cutaneous leishmaniasis resistant to standard intralesional glucantime inj...