Sonographic Determination of Normal Spleen Weight among Adults at Barishal District in Bangladesh

Abstract

The study was conducted to determine normal spleen dimensions and anthropometric evaluation by ultrasonography from females and males at Barisal district in Bangladesh. A cross sectional data was collected from the 200 subjects in our population. These measurements were taken using an ultrasonography. The mean values of the age, height, weight and body mass index (BMI) of subjects, spleen width (SW), spleen length (SL), spleen thickness (ST) and spleen volume calculated with ellipsoid formula; length x width x thickness x 0.524 were taken. These measurements were found to be 41.37±16.92 years, 157.48±3.71 cm, 55.36±2.11 kg, 20.1±1.01 kg/m2, 3.63 ±0.75 cm, 7.60±1.0 cm, 6.05±1.19 cm and 78.92±34.78 cm3 in females respectively. Additionally, in males’ same dimensions were 42.85±17.93 years, 165.1±4.57 cm, 61.26±3.34 kg, 21.1±1.02 kg/m2, 4.01±0.34 cm, 8.66±0.74 cm, 7.67±0.35 cm and 92.17 ±36.35 cm3, respectively. The observations presented in this report have defined anatomic parameters about spleen size that need to be taken into consideration for reference data to determine population discrepancies and helpful for radiologists and clinicians.