Dear colleagues, fellow doctors, friends and supporters, It is my special honor and pleasure to announce a new number of our journal “Acta Orthopedica et Traumatologica Macedonica”. Unfortunately, our plan to publish the journal in the past time period could not be achieved due to the specific circumstances regarding the situation with Covid 19 pandemic. For the moment, above all, we wish you all to stay healthy and safe. Like in the previous time period, our journal will be again published in English language with supporting abstracts in Macedonian. The content in this number is consisted of articles focused on musculoskeletal oncology as a topic combined with some articles and case reports in the field of endoprostethic surgery, spine surgery and distraction osteogenesis. It is a special honor and pleasure for all of us to be able to publish a paper from the world famous orthopedic surgeon Prof. Rainer Kotz et al. from Vienna. Our goal is every forthgoing issue to be published with articles covering broader field of interest of orthopedic surgery and traumatology. On behalf of all members of the Editorial Board, I would like to thank to all the authors, co-authors and other collaborators for their active contribution and help in our publishing efforts. In addition, we apologize for the inevitable technical mistakes in this and other issues of the Journal. The members of the Board and our reviewers will proceed their intentions and efforts to involve everybody who has interest for publishing in field of medicine and especially in orthopedic surgery and traumatology in our “Acta Orthopedica et Traumatologica Macedonica”. Thereby, we will be happy to continue the tradition of documenting and analysis of the results of our professional work and sharing our experiences in our country and abroad.
President of the Editorial Board,
Ass. Prof. Dr. Nenad Atanasov