[Reminiscence on the municipal out-of-hospital maternity unit and the motherhood home in Novi Sad].

Introduction: In the mid-twentieth century, the health care of women and children was inadequate in the post-war Yugoslavia, including the city of Novi Sad, due to the severe post-war reality: poverty in the devastated country, shortage of all commodities and services and especially of medical supplies, equipment and educated staff. OUT-OF-HOSPITAL MATERNITY UNIT: One of the serious problems was parturition at home and morbidity and mortality of the newborns and women. Soon after the World War II the action programme of improving the women's health was realized on the state level by establishing out-of-hospital maternity units but under the expert supervision.

Diagnostic and therapy of locally advanced rectal cancer.

The aim of the study was to check the results of the protocol with neoadjuvant chemoirradiation for the treatment of locally advanced rectal cancer. The value of preoperative methods for staging of rectal cancer was also studied. In the period 1st of June 2000 - 31st of December 2005, 116 patients were included into the study, all with histologically proven rectal cancer up to 12 cm from anal verge and all with T3/T4 No-2 M0 stage.