Measurement of Normal Spleen Dimensions in Adult Sudanese Using Ultrasonography

Abstract

This study was done to measure the normal spleen dimensions in adult Sudanese, and to correlate these dimensions with the variables of age, gender, height, weight and body mass index, the study was done with the subjects lying in right lateral decubits in deep breath. The spleen dimensions were measured by centimeter. It was done during the period from May to August 2016 in Elmutakamil Medical Group, Khartoum state, using Medison ultrasound system machine. A number of 60 subjects were scanned (29 male, 31female). The findings included that the mean value of Spleen length, width, Thickness were 10.3±1.2, 3.3±0.4, 3.9±0.6 for male and 9.2±0.9, 3.1±0.3, 3.6±0.6 for female, the spleen volume 73.3±23.1for male and 56.5±18.0cm3 for female. There were statistically significant differences between male and female in length, width and volume, and non-significant differences between male and female in depth .The means of length, depth, width and volume were, 10.2955, 9.2194, 3.8793, 3.5755, 3.28, 3.06, 7.32573, 5.65242 respectively for Male and Female, with corresponding significance values of t-tests 0.000 , 0.053 , 0.022 , 0.003.It was found that there is significant correlation between spleen length, height, weight and non-significant correlation with body mass index ,sig values were 0.003 ,025 and 0.418 respectively, there was non-significant correlation between spleen width and height ,weight and BMI. Also there was significant correlation between spleen depth and height and non-significant correlation with weight and BMI, the sig values were respectively. Furthermore there were significant correlation between spleen volume and height and non-significant correlation with weight and BMI, the sig values were 0.001and 0.141, 0.653 respectively.