For the purpose of economic evaluation in the health economics, several analytical techniques that are designed for comparing two or more health interventions in terms of costs and effects are used. Cost-benefit analysis provides the opportunity of comparing values of alternative health interventions that have very different health benefits, which ...

By Aleksandar Višnjić, Vladica Veličković, Nataša Šelmić Milosavljević

Severe pathologic resorption of the mandible may result in weakening of the jaw, unstable dentures, abnormal functions of mastication and speech, and a marked reduction of the facial and vertical dimension. This clinical report describes the rehabilitation of a severely resorbed mandible treated with mini dental implants and an iliac bone graft. A ...

By Marija Bubalo, Zoran Lazić, Radomir Milović, Anika Ćuković

Malignant melanoma presents unusual predilection for metastasizing in small intestine, becoming one of the most common malignancies that metastasize in small intestine. Intestinal metastases can be identified at the moment of primary disease or later, as a first sign of recurrence. We report a case of malignant melanoma metastatic to the GI tract. ...

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

The aim of this study was to assess the feasibility of hysteroscopy for identifying abnormal findings in uterine cavities of pre- and postmenopausal women presented with abnormal uterine bleeding and to correlate the hysteroscopic with histological findings. The study involved 239 female patients referred to the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics...

By Sonja Pop Trajković Dinić, Vesna Kopitović, Vladimir Antić, Snežana Stamenović, Dejan Mitić, Jelena Milošević

Between 1996 and 2004, a total of 708 patients were enrolled in the AML ´96 and 2002 studies of the East German Study Group. Of those, 138 patients (19.5%) had unfavourable cytogenetics defined as complex karyotype, del (5q)/-5, del (7q)/-7, abn (3q26) and abn (11q23). Seventy-seven (56%) patients achieved CR1 after induction chemotherap...

By Nadežda Basara, Antje Schulze, Herbert Sayer

Scanty information is available regarding the clinical characteristics, quality of life (QoL) profile and manometric findings in unselected newly diagnosed cases of achalasia. Fifty-six consecutive cases of newly diagnosed achalasia have been characterized regarding the symptoms when a standardized protocol was applied, to which was added a more de...

By Srđan Kostić, Magnus Ruth, Ann Kjellin, Lars Lundell, Erik Svartholm, Mats Andersson, Hans Lönroth

Muscle fiber types and  their metabolic and size properties, key determinants of muscle function, can be altered by variety of factors. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the fiber type composition and size of fibers in the tibialis anterior (TA) muscle of young adult male and female rats, using histochemical and morphometric me...

By Desanka Tasić, Irena Dimov, Vladimir Petrović, Todorka Savić, Dragan Dimov

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the most common cause of death among infectious diseases. During the management of pneumonia, it is often uncertain when the disease may turn into severe form. The first definition of severe CAP was provided by the ATS Guidelines. Definition was built up around simple clinical and radiographic criteria reflecti...

By Desa Nastasijević Borovac, Tatjana Pejčić, Tatjana Rađenović Petković, Vidosava Đorđević, Ivanka Đorđević, Ivana Stanković, Milan Rančić

Sarcoidosis is characterized by granulomatous inflammation developing in the affected organs. The ethiopathogenesis of the disease is still unknown. The lungs are most commonly affected, and uncontrolled, long-lasting inflammation can result in pulmonary fibrosis. Many different mediators, such as cytokines, chemokines, and other proteins with vari...

By Tatjana Rađenović Petković, Tatjana Pejčić, Desa Nastasijević Borovac, Danijela Radojković, Sonja Cekić

Prepositions and prepositional phrases play an important role in the professional medical register in English and they are very abundant. Realization of the prepositions in medical texts could cause difficulties to non-native English language speakers scientists. The subject of this paper is prepositions with their meanings (single and multiple). P...

By Slobodanka Krulj, Bojana Prodanović, Stevan Trbojević