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The patients in the Yetter paper were all being evaluated for liver disease, so their measurements might not be what you want to use as normal.
by defen 9y ago
The patients in the Yetter paper were all being evaluated for liver disease, so their measurements might not be what you want to use as normal.
- nonbel 9y agoThanks, looking closer at the Yetter paper: >"Normal cadaveric splenic volumes reported by Loftus et al. [8] are 26–250 cm3 with a mean volume of 110 cm3 and an SD of 70 cm3. Henderson et al. [19] reported a normal splenic volume of 219 cm3 as calculated from axial CT acquisitions." So an average of 219 cm^3 according to axial CT is still larger than what is seen here. I'm not sure about the cadaver spleens, do they shrink? The Loftus paper only reports maximum length vs actual volume so we can't see that direct correlation. Some other papers report 184 cm^3 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4549594/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4549594/) and 214.6 cm^3 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9038125 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9038125)