Nora's lesion or bizarre parosteal osteochondromatous proliferation is a rare benign bone neoplasm that is usually localized on the small bones of the hands. The paper was aimed at clinical, morphological and structural analysis of Nora's lesion case, the second registered in Ukraine. A 42-year-old male patient presented with complaints of painless...

By Borys Fylenko, Nataliia Roiko, Andriy Roiko, Іvan Starchenko, Dmytro Kuvichka, Volodymyr Koka

This study aimed to evaluate and quantify the antimicrobial activity of lyophilized fruit juice (BCLJ) and waste extract (BCLW) obtained from the black currant (Ribes nigrum L.) variety Čačanska crna. The study was conducted using four Gram (+) (Bacillus cereus, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis) and five Gram (-)...

By Milica Trajković, Dušanka Kitić, Tatjana Mihajilov-Krstev, Katarina Šavikin, Milica Ranđelović, Milica Milutinović, Suzana Branković, Nemanja Kitić, Bojana Miladinović

Chronic granulomatous invasive fungal rhinosinusitis (CGIFRS) is an extremely rare form of invasive fungal sinusitis. The disease has a long-lasting and indolent course, so the invasion and destruction in the sinonasal and adjacent regions is progressing slowly. This disease has been reported primarily in Middle East, North Africa, India and Pakist...

By Milica Labus, Jelena Sotirović, Biserka Vukomanović-Đurđević, Aleksandar Perić

Body mass index (BMI) is a person's weight in kilograms (or pounds) divided by the square of height in meters (or feet). Obesity affects a wide spectrum of age groups, from the young to the elderly, and there are several eye diseases related to obesity like diabetic retinopathy, floppy eyelid syndrome, retinal vein occlusion, stroke-related vision ...

By Suzan Rattan, Abdulhadi Alrubaie, Send Salih, Sajad Abdalla, Sajad Hussein, Fatima Tariq

Those born small for gestational age are all newborns whose weight, length and head circumference deviate by more than minus two standard deviations in relation to the same parameters of average children of the same sex, corresponding gestational age and population. The goal is their early recognition and adequate treatment. They should be clearly ...

By Jelena Miolski, Maja Ješić, Vlada Bojić, Smiljka Kovačević, Jelena Blagojević, Vera Zdravković

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) represents a multisystemic disease characterized by antibody production, complement activation, and immune complexes deposition. Certain types of malignancies occur more often, and conversely, some of them occur less often in SLE patients. Mucosal melanoma of the anorectal region represents a rare form of melanoma...

By Aleksandar Popović, Ivan Petković, Andrija Rančić, Aleksandra Dimitrijević, Vesna Brzački, Stefan Stankov, Andrija Jović, Sonja Stojanović

When receiving anesthesia, patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are more likely to experience perioperative difficulties than those without this diagnosis. Aim. The aims of the paper were to highlight the correlation between OSA and increased risk of perioperative complications and present possible complications and pathophysiological mechan...

By Zoran Stamenković, Lidija Ristić

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has led to significant public health problems, severe complications, and functional impairment in persons who have recovered from this disease. A 60-years-old male deconditioned patient was transferred from Corona 4 Center to the Center for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of the University C...

By Vesna Grbović, Aleksandra Jurišić-Škevin, Nataša Marković, Kristina Mladenović, Marina Petrović-Stanković, Kristina Mitrović, Dejan Aleksić, Stefan Simović, Željko Todorović, Nataša Zdravković-Petrović

Preschool children are a particularly sensitive group in need of special care concerning health, safety, food, and nutrition. Furthermore, habits formed at an early age tend to be retained even in adulthood. Therefore, parents as the first educators of their children are responsible for the development of healthy eating habits and the quality of nu...

By Marija Marković, Zorica Stanisavljević-Petrović, Anastasija Mamutović

Alexithymia is manifested by limited abilities to identify and express emotions and is a possible risk factor for the onset and treatment of the disease. To determine the dependence of the presence of alexithymia in patients with chronic lung and heart diseases. One hundred respondents aged 35 to 75 participated in the research, 50% of whom were be...

By Marija Lazarević