[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.

[The value of endorectal ultrasonography in rectal cancer staging].

Introduction: Preoperative staging of rectal cancer is considered essential to select patients adequately for different therapeutic regimes. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the accuracy of endorectal ultrasonography in preoperative staging of rectal cancer.

Materials And Methods: Fifty rectal cancer patients (31 men, 19 women) underwent endorectal ultrasonography with a 7.

Rectal cancer: possibilities of MRI in detection of local recurrence.

Treatment of rectal cancer, which includes periodic evaluations, may lead to earlier identification of recurrent local infiltration. Differentiation between local recurrence and other post radiation changes is frequently rather difficult. Pelvic MR examination was performed in 30 patients (20 men, 10 women) at the Institute of oncology, Sremska Kamenica.

Prospective randomized study comparing sentinel lymph node evaluation with standard pathologic evaluation for the staging of colon carcinoma: results from the United States Military Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Group Study GI-01.

Background: The principal role of sentinel lymph node (SLN) sampling and ultrastaging in colon cancer is enhanced staging accuracy. The utility of this technique for patients with colon cancer remains controversial.

Purpose: This multicenter randomized trial was conducted to determine if focused assessment of the SLN with step sectioning and immunohistochemistry (IHC) enhances the ability to stage the regional nodal basin over conventional histopathology in patients with resectable colon cancer.

Elevated plasma TGF-beta1 levels correlate with decreased survival of metastatic breast cancer patients.

Background: The role of circulating TGF-beta(1) in prognosis of breast cancer (BC) was investigated with an intention to define TGF-beta(1)-dependent high risk and low risk subsets of patients.

Methods: Fifty three BC patients of all clinical stages and 37 healthy donors (HD) were analyzed for plasma TGF-beta(1) by the TbetaRII receptor-based Quantikine TGF-beta(1) ELISA kit.

Results: The plasma TGF-beta(1) level of Stage I/II disease (median: 0.