Measurement of spleen Among Sudanese Adults by using computed tomography

Abstract

The spleen is the largest organ in reticuloendothelial system ,the splenic size use as indicator of disease activity in a variety of disorders of the reticuloendothelial system The objective of this prospective study is to evaluate normal spleen measurements (length, width , CTnumber) in different Sudanese tribes using CT and correlated to patients age For the normal subjects the mean of splenic length, width ,CTnumber were 8.75 cm(1,95---STDV),4.29 cm(.89---STDV)and 48.69 HU(8.39---STDV) respectively . For the diseased subjects the mean of splenic length,width ,CTnumber were 12..59cm(.63---STDV),4.93 cm(..44---STDV) and 44.3 HU2.92---STDV) respectively. The correlation between mean splenic dimension parameters for all subjects showed that was a linear relation between splenic length, width and CTnumber with the patient age and weight.