Restorative proctocolectomy with ileal pouch-anal anastomosis is the surgical treatment of choice for patients with medically refractory ulcerative colitis, ulcerative colitis with dysplasia or cancer, or familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP), regardless of their age. The aim of the paper was to report our 6-year experience of restorative proctocole...

By Gjorgji Jota, Zoran Karadžov, Milčo Panovski, Nenad Joksimović, Andrijan Kartalov, Radomir Gelevski, Vladimir Joksimović

72 years-old woman suffered an open fracture of the right tibia, as a pedestrian, when the bus tires crossed over the right foot. She was immediately transported to the Clinical Center Niš and following clinical examination, the amputation of the lower leg was advised due to extensive injury. On admission to the hospital (Clinic for Orthoped...

By Ivan Golubović, Goran Stevanović, Predrag Stojiljković, Zoran Golubović, Danilo Stojiljković, Aleksandar Višnjić, Stevo Najman, Vera Baščarević, Milan Grubor

Hair loss is not a common feature of secondary syphilis. There are two types of syphilitic alopecia: “symptomatic” type where hair loss is associated with other symptoms of secondary syphilis, and “essential” alopecia that is either patchy (“moth-eaten” type), diffuse pattern with a generalized thinning of the sc...

By Milan Bjekić

In many physiological processes, peptides play a critical role as neurotrans mitters, hormones, antibiotics, etc. They have research importance in fields such as immunology, pharmacology, neuroscience and cell biology. There are many approaches for immunotherapies: some of them use the peptides as important components of chimeric molecules for immu...

By Nikolina Mihaylova, Andrey Tchorbanov

Palpable lymphadenopathy presents a serious diagnostic and therapeutic problem in primary care. The patients are often referred to a specialist with delay and even more often they are referred to unneeded diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Empiric treatment with antibiotics and corticosteroids and extraction of often healthy teeth commonly lead...

By Stefan Lukić, Goran Marjanović, Jovana Živanović

It is not enough just to do mammography, but perform a quality one. American Association of Radiologists (American College of Radiology - ACR) introduced a unique and a standard terminology in radiological diagnosis of breast disease calling it the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System or abbreviated BIRADS. The aim of the paper is to present a ...

By Rade Babić

Starting from reduced definition of health in terms of absence of disease and invalidity, the paper explains the applicability of three cardinal principles of economics (scarcity of resources and imperative of choice, opportunity costs, marginal analysis) on extremely sensitive area of economic evaluation of health care. An attempt was made to reco...

By Slobodan Cvetanović

Arteriovenous fistula (AVF) between the external iliac artery (AIE) and external iliac vein (VIE) after trauma is rare. Rarely, it occurs that fistula is accompanied by an aneurysm of external iliac artery. Two thirds of AVF occur after stab wounds, one third after puncture wounds and only one percent after blunt injuries. A 32-year-old male visite...

By Nenad Ilić, Milan Jovanović, Zoran Damnjanović, Goran Stanojević

Open tibial shaft fractures rank as the most common fractures of the locomotor system. External skeletal fixation, after primary open fracture wound management, stands for a good method in the management of open tibial shaft fractures, as it does not poses an additional threat to the bone vascularisation in the fracture area, which is important for...

By Ivan Golubović, Zoran Golubović, Aleksandar Višnjić, Stevo Najman, Nenad Ilić, Goran Đorđević, Nebojša Krstić, Milan Grubor

There are three adhesive restorative systems: etch and rinse (total etch), self etch and glass ionomer systems. Marginal gap and alteration of marginal enamel around composite and glass ionomer restoration may be influenced by the use of adhesive restorative procedure. The aim of this study was to evaluate the marginal integrity and morphology of t...

By Stefan Dačić, Dragica Simonović Dačić, Goran Radičević, Aleksandar Mitić, Goran Tošić, Ivan Ristić, Stefan Veličković