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Volume 53, Issue 4, 2025

Online ISSN: 2560-3310

ISSN: 0350-8773

Volume 53 , Issue 4, (2025)

Published: 30.06.2025.

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01.12.2021.

Professional paper

Lower leg fractures treated with an external fixator at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the Clinical Hospital Center of Kosovska Mitrovica

IIntroduction: Fractures of the lower leg are frequent fractures of long bones that are of great importance in traumatology. The role of external fixation (SF) as a type of surgical treatment is significant and widely applied. There are 3 methods of using SF to treat tibial fractures: SF as primary and definitive treatment, SF combined with internal fixation, and conversion of SF to internal fixation. Objective: To show the possibilities of SF as a definitive way of treating lower leg fractures. Methods: In our paper, we analyzed 254 lower leg fractures treated with SF according to Mitković M20, which were treated at the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology of CHC Kosovska Mitrovica. This series included 172 men or 68% of the total number of patients, and 83 or 32% women. Results: The average age of patients treated with this method is between the third and fourth decades of life. Falling on the leg with twisting of the table or the entire lower part of the leg is the most common type and cause of injuries in 69%. A closed lower leg fracture was diagnosed in 220 patients (A AO 59.%, B AO 26% and C AO 15%). Adequate position of the bone fragments was achieved by the closed reposition method in 190 (%), the average healing time was 18.4 weeks. In 93% of patients, we achieved bone union. Conclusion: The simple placement technique, the simplicity of the instrumentation, the wide range of indications where SF can be used, have led to the fact that it is a type of surgical treatment of great importance for lower leg fractures in small areas.

Saša Jovanović, Z. Elek, P. Denović, N. Miljković, J. Tomašević, D. Petrović

01.01.2010.

Case Reports

CONTEMPORARY ASPECTS OF TREATING COMBUSTION USING AQUACEL AG GAUZE - CASE RAPPORT

Combustion are hypothermic injuries that can occur due to the contact with electricity, chemicals, dry heat, hot liquid and gas, and radiation. In this work there is a 52 year old patient that was treated from combustion on her both feet and her lower legs. Previously, she was treated as an outpatient in a period of 30 days. For the first time in our department we used hydrofiber bandage with Aquacel Ag silver in treating combustion on patient's diabetic foot. These bandages are impregnated with silver that has antimicrobial effect on a huge variety of bacteria. It soaks in a big amount of liquid and bacteria and it helps in removing necrotic tissue from the wound making autolysis debridement. The patient was treated for 35 days on general surgery department. She was released from the hospital in good general condition and with neat local finding. 

Z. Radosavljević, R. Janković, Z. Elek, D. Janićijević

01.12.2008.

Professional paper

PROGNOSTIC FACTORS IN THE BREAST CANCER

Breast cancer is mostfreqency malignant tumor in womans, cardinal causer of death in malignant tumots with continous ascendig of incidence and mortality. Actual therapy of breast cancer is multidisclipinary to consist in surgical, irradiant, cytostatic, hormonal and imunological therapy with specific directive based in disease stage. Surgical therapy is now more effectiveness metod of therapy and base of multidisclipinary therapy. In aim of prognosis desease conclusion and risk ratio of local relapse in currency is prognostic factors. With combination a few factors derive prognostic indexes with whose can acquire more information aggainst biologic behaviour of each neoplasm.

S. Dimić, I. Dimić, D. Petrović, B. Vučinić, R. Janković, D. Jakšiċ, R. Kovačević, Z. Radosavljević, M. Dančetović, B. Turković, Z. Elek, Lj. Milošević, D. Janićijević, B. Mitrović

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