[Silicone breast implants and risk of carcinoma]. / Silikonski implantati za dojku i rizik od karcinoma.

Breast reconstruction, i.e. enlargement of the breast by use of silicone implants, has been performed for almost 40 years. Due to its qualities silicone is being widely used in different branches of surgery. New scientific and technological knowledge have resulted in a variety of types of silicone implants (sheet, filling). There is a great interest, but also controversies concerning the development of breast cancer and connective tissue disease in implant bearing patients. There is no evidence on the influence of silicone implants on the breast cancer development. Regardless of the presence of the implant, standard mammography, additional tangential projections, Eklund's maneuver, ultrasonography in addition to a careful clinical examination are sufficient for an adequate follow-up and detection of even minimal changes within the breast tissue.

[Emergency surgical procedures in neonates and infants over a 20-year period]. / Hitni kirurski zahvati kod novorodencadi i dojencadi kroz dvadesetogodisnje razdoblje.

The authors analyse their experience concerning emergency treatments during the twenty year period at their Surgical department in which there never was a pediatric surgeon. The most common surgical procedures are presented, which should be carried out in emergency; it is accentuated that such patients have also to be surgically treated in Subregional hospital's Centers, in which there are no the necessary conditions; that does oblige the general surgeon to pay attention in his everyday activities to these small but delicate patients. Newborns and breastfed babies together with acute surgical disorders, can often have other health problems (or associated diseases), so that there is a necessity of team work and close collaboration between surgeon, anesthesiologist, pediatrician and radiologist in the managing of such patients.