Abstract:
This study to measure the thyroid gland volume in normal Sudanese population meal and female from one year old to fifty year old.
100 normal Sudanese meal and female from 1 to 50 years old were scanned ultrasound at Ribat University Hospital over 3 month.
High resolution sonography of the thyroid gland was performed with an ultrasound machine Siemens and Toshiba. The volume of each lobe was calculated automatically in the machine by using Ellipsoid formula (the volume = length * width * depth *0.52 ) and the total thyroid volume obtained by add them.
The overall mean volume +-SDml of thyroid gland was 8.61ml the mean volume of right lobe was4.60ml the mean volume of left lobe was 3.93ml the right lobe is bigger than the left lobe.
The ultrasound has proven as a useful method for the assessment of the thyroid volume and it is safety and less expensive.
