Kidney Dimensions İn Tc-99m Dmsa Scan Compared To Morphometric Measurements In Children

Abstract

Objectives: In this study it is aimed to search the morphometric measurements of kidney in terms of its clinical importance.

Methods: 230 subject are selected of which 83 were boys and 147 were girls. Children included in this study were of age group 7-11 years. The height and weight of the children and the width, height and the thickness of their both kidneys were measured in Nuclear Medicine Department in Necmettin Erbakan University. Renal measures are investigated by comparing them with the height and weight of the children using statistical methods. The results are evaluated with Pearson analysis and the t-test. 

Results: It is found that he mean lenght of the right kidney was 69,21±13,8 mm, the width 32,66±6 mm and the thickness was 18,59±3,5 mm and the mean lenght of the leftkidney was 70,97 ±14,2 mm, the width 33,51 ±6 mm and the thickness was 18,97±3,6 mm. The height of the children was 109,40±31,1 cm and the weight was 23,32 ±15,7 kg. When the relationships of the parameters with each other are investigated it was found that the mean lenght, width and the thickness of the right kidney was less than the same measurements (the mean lenght, width and the thickness) of the left kidney and the renal measures (dimensions) were larger in women (p>0.05).

Conclusion: When the clinical importance and the problems encountered in surgical interventions of the kidneys are taken into account, it was considered that knowledge about the morphometric features of the kidneys, would be helpfull forthe clinical applications.  

Keywords

• Kidney,morphometry,children

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