ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to investigate the ultrasonographic measurements for certain normal abdominal organs. Length and width of gallbladder and length of liver, spleen, kidneys and thickness of the kidneys were measured in a age. And gender-stratified non-consecutive sample of 496 [54.2%] men and 419 [45.8%] women at different ages referred to out ultrasonography unit during one year of daily hospital practice in Kerman, Iran. Findings on ultrasonograms of the kidneys, liver, spleen, gallbladder and head of pancreas were normal in all cases. Patients were scanned by a real time scanner equipped with a 3.5 MHZ medium internal focus transducer. The mean [standard deviation [SDI] liver lengths were 125.6 [8.8] and 119 [7.7] mm, mean [SD] gallbladder length was 49.9 [3.6] and 49.3 [3.5] mm, mean [SD] gallbladder widths were 18.0 [2.3] and 18.2 [1.8] mm and mean [SD] size of pancreatic head was 15.9 [1.6] and 13.8 [1.4] mm in males and females respectively. The mean [SD] renal lengths were 101.5 [5.0] and 98.9 [5.0] mm on the right side and 110.0 [6.3] and 108.0 [6.0] mm on the left side and mean [SD] size of spleen was 93.8 [4.1] and 92.3 [3.2] mm in males and females respectively. The values obtained in this study were slightly lower than those observed in western population