Sonographic Measurement Of Normal Liver And Spleen Dimensions In The Paediatric Population Age Group Between 5-15 Years Of A Rural District In Haryana
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Abstract
Background: Ultrasonography is one of the routinely done imaging diagnosis methods, especially to evaluate the visceral organs among children, since its characteristics of being non-invasive, non-ionizing, widely available, and cheap. There is prominent evidence that proofs the liver and spleen dimensions show variation according to their age groups, sex, genetic or of a different race, socioeconomic factors even with different anthropometric parameters. So it's essential to evaluate their size because hepatomegaly and splenomegaly seem to be very common problems in any part of the world. Since the enlargement of organs can suggest that there is some pathogen activity or any infection or abnormal physiology is initiated in the body, measuring the organ can aid it.
AIM: The aim of this study was to evaluate the dimensions of the liver and spleen among paediatric patients of age group 5-15 years of the rural district of Haryana.
Methods: This is a prospective and quantitative study conducted at the radiology department of S.G.T hospital, Budhera, Gurugram, Haryana, study was done to create normative data for the average dimension of the liver and spleen, measurements were taken by ultrasound machines, ideally done with a 3.5MHz curvilinear probe, dimensions were attained from 50 pediatric patients (37 males and 13females) of age group 5-15 years, of the rural district of Haryana. Other biological information like height, weight, age, sex, and complaints were also taken.
Result: The length of liver and spleen attained sonographically for a total of 50 paediatric patients was 11.37±1.9cm and 8.26±1.2cm. But among males, the liver length was 11.4±1.8cm, in females, it was 11.29±2.3cm, the splenic length of males was 8.38±1.1cm, in females it was 7.93±1.3cm. When splitting the data into two different age groups, the liver length for below 10 years (5-10) children show 10.77±1.90cm and splenic length was 7.7cm±1.01cm, whereas the above 10 years (10-15) children show the liver length of 12.56±1.70cm and the splenic length of 9.34±0.81cm.
Conclusion: This study provides normative data of average dimension of length and spleen among the pediatric population of the Haryana district.The average values of the liver and spleen can act as references for further future studies.