Measurement of Seminal Vesicles Diameter among Adult Sudanese Using Ultrasonography

Abstract

This study was conducted in Khartoum State in Alnhda Reference Medical Center during the period from January (2019) to October (2019). The problem of the study there is no previous studies include measurements of the normal seminal vesicle’s diameter in adult Sudanese. The objective of this study was to establish standard measurements of the seminal vesicles’ diameter in normal adults Sudanese by trans-abdominal ultrasound in order to find measurement range related to age, married status and prostate volume. This study was cross sectional descriptive study where the data were collected from (80) Sudanese adult male using data collecting sheet. The results showed the average diameter of the right seminal vesicles (10.22 ± 2.84) mm and average diameter of the left seminal vesicles (10.29 ± 2.88) mm. The range values of the right seminal vesicle’s diameter (4mm - 21.5 mm) and the range values of the left seminal vesicle )4mm - 22.5 mm( .The study showed that, there was no relationship between the patient's age with right and left vesicle diameters. Also, the study found out that the right and left vesicle diameters wasn't affected by the married status of the patients among these populations. Also, there is no relationships between the prostate volumes with right and left vesicle diameters but there was moderate positive relationship between prostate volume and patient age (R2= 0.53 and P value =0.000). The normal seminal vesicle has low level echogenicity (100%) and homogenous in texture (100 %). The study recommended that future research studies should be done with expanding period of time and include more sample data for precise and accurate results.