Publications by authors named "Daniel Holownia"
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- The study focuses on lymphoproliferative neoplasms, particularly Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, evaluating the usefulness of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) as a predictor of treatment outcomes.
- ADC was measured in 27 patients at two points: before treatment and on the first day of the second chemotherapy cycle, revealing a significant increase from pre-treatment (720 mm/s) to post-treatment (1059 mm/s).
- Findings suggest that lower ADC values before treatment and specific cutoff values post-treatment can indicate the likelihood of disease progression and may serve as essential prognostic markers in lymphoma therapy.
In the last few years, notable technical progress has taken place in ultrasound elastography. Qualitative methods have been replaced by quantitative ones, such as: transient elastography, acoustic radiation force impulse and shear wave elastography. Owing to the fact that the spleen is superficially located, it is possible to obtain reliable measuring accuracy of its hardness using sonoelastography.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Diastematomyelia is a rare congenital malformation of the spinal cord, which belongs to the group of occult spinal dysraphisms. This disorder consists in the separation of the spinal cord into two parts in the sagittal plane (hemicords). Diastematomyelia may coexist with other spinal dysraphisms, such as myelomeningocele, meningocele, spinal lipoma, neuroenteric cysts or dermal sinuses and vertebral abnormalities, such as hemivertebrae, butterfly vertebrae or scoliosis.
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