Measurement of Normal Spleen Volume in Sudanese Children using Ultrasonography

Abstract

Ultrasound is one of the most widely used imaging modalities and it is an excellent tool for diagnosing medical issues in both children and adults’ spleen ultrasound is one of this modalities choise to evaluate and assess measurement and pathological condition of this organ This was a cross sectional descriptive study was done in Bashair hospital –Khartoum state from November 2019 to March 2020 which aim to evaluate spleen measurement {length, width thickness ,volume and BMI)}in Sudanese children from 0 to17years This study was done on 100 healthy child coming to ultra sound by abdominal pain([48 male and 52 female) Trans -abdominal scanning was done for all children using ultra sound machine Sefius UF -980 AG with curvilinear probe of 2 to3.5 megahertz. The children were divided to five groups according to their age. The mean of age was (7.25±6.26 years),. The study found that the mean of the spleen measurement (length, width, depth and volume, (8.48±2.09) cm, (5.98±1.77) cm (2.61±0.72) cm, (68.85±48.80) cm3 respectively. The result show there was no significant difference between male and female in spleen measurement, there was linear relation between splenic volume and height , weight , and BMI and there was significant relation between splenic measurement and age (p=0.00) . The study conducted that the male and female had the same spleen volume and there is no different between them unless in the older age above 15 years old. The values cut of point reference values of normal splenic measurement and volume in children Sudanese population