Thoracolumbar spine fractures are most common in the young healthy population. The most common causes of these fractures are high-energy traumas, traffic accidents or falls from heights. Fractures can be followed by neurological damage, which is a direct consequence of the spinal cord damage. Fractures are treated with surgical or nonsurgical metho...

By Saša Milenković, Jordan Saveski, Neda Trajkovska, Goran Vidić, Mile Radenković

Clinically isolated syndrome suggestive on multiple sclerosis is monophasic clinical presentation with suspected underlying inflammatory demyelinating disease. Clinically isolated syndrome supported with magnetic resonance evidence may present the earliest manifestation of multiple sclerosis. Clinical manifestations are still the basis of the first...

By Dejan Savić, Slobodan Vojinović, Stevo Lukić, Ljiljana Savić

Digital photography has today, quite sure, penetrated into all segments of life, providing new facts and perceptions in the field of science, medicine, industry, fashion design, communications and arts. The aim of this paperwork was to, based of the observations from literature and clinical experience, inform and assist the physician-practitioner i...

By Dragan Mladenović, Lidija Mladenović, Sanja Mladenović

The dog parasites Dirofilaria immitis (D. immitis) and Dirofilaria repens (D. repens), well known as zoonotic agents, can infect humans with immature forms. Human dirofilarioses in many asymptomatic patients are undiagnosed because physicians do not consider this etiology, and because it is impossible to apply non-invasive diagnostic procedures. So...

By Jovana Đorđević, Suzana Tasić, Nataša Miladinović-Tasić, Aleksandar Tasić

Systemic antibiotics are increasingly used in the treatment of periodontal infections. Whilst these drugs are used mostly on an empirical basis, some physicians contend that rational use of antibiotics should be the norm due to their wide abuse and global emergence of antibiotic-resistant organisms. This is a review of the principles and rational a...

By Ana Pejčić, Ljiljana Kesić, Radmila Obradović, Dimitrije Mirković

The dog nematodes Dirofilaria immitis (D. immitis) and D. repens, well known as zoonotic agents, can infect humans in whom they usually produce abortive infections or immature worms. Dirofilarioses, asymptomatic in most patients and suspected only when the worm reaches surface locations or imaging detects coin lesions, are underdiagnosed because bo...

By Gabriella Cancrini, Simona Gabrielli, Suzana Otašević, Nataša Miladinović-Tasić, Aleksandar Tasić, Jovana Đorđević

Breast carcinoma is the most common female malignancy. Mastectomy and breast reconstruction are indicated to treat the disease and to improve quality of life. The aim of this study was to compare the esthetic results of breast reconstruction with extended latissimus dorsi flap and implant for breast cancer with and without denervation of latissimus...

By Milan Višnjić, Predrag Kovačević, Ljiljana Paunković, Goran Đorđević, Aleksandar Višnjić

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is caused by the larva of tapeworm Echinococcus spp.. Echinococcosis may develop after accidental ingestion of tapeworm eggs. The aim of this study was to examine the seroprevalence and seroincidence of echinococcosis at the territory of the City of Niš in the last 22 years. From 1988 until the end of 1998, 1....

By Suzana Otašević, Nataša Miladinović-Tasić, Aleksandar Tasić, Dragan Zdravković, Jovana Đorđević, Aleksandra Ignjatović, Roberta Marković, Dragana Cvetković

he World Health Organization specifies that young people should be healthier and more capable of performing their roles in society. The aim of the study was to determine the need of the Serbian university students for referral to psychologist or psychiatrist in accordance with their self-estimation, as well as the association of this need with part...

By Aleksandar Višnjić, Vladica Veličković, Slađana Jović, Nataša Milosavljević, Miodrag Stojanović, Miodrag Stanković

The purpose of this review was to show the available clinical and biological advances of umbilical cord blood allogeneic stem cell transplantation in adult patients. In adults, umbilical cord blood transplantation, due to less pronounced graft versus host disease compared to conventional approaches may, be feasible in spite of slower engraftment. T...

By Goran Marjanović, Milena Todorović-Bakrač, Tatjana Jevtović-Stoimenov