Study Of Correlation Of Liver Size With Height In North-east Karnataka Children By Ultrasonography

ABSTRACT

Background: Liver vary widely according to age. Many diseases can affect their size ranging from infectiveprocesses to malignant disorders. Palpation and percussion are standard bedside techniques to document butare far from accurate to detect small increases in size.Variations in the anthropometric features of variouspopulations, races and regions are an established fact.Ultrasonography is widely used in medicine.It is possible to perform both diagnosis and therapeutic procedures.Sonography is effective for imaging soft tissues of body. Ultrasound is an extremely important imaging methodin evaluation of liver in children due to the fact that it is easy to use, non invasive, safe, quick and accurate. Inpresent study, aim is to evaluate correlation of liver size with the parameters such as age, sex and height inchildren.Objective: To know whether there is any correlation between the normal liver size with parameters such as age,sex and height in children.Materials and Methods: Present study is cross-sectional in nature and conducted in Government Medical Collegeand District Hospital, Bidar. Sample size of 260 cases was taken between the age group of 1 to 17 years, infancyto middle adolescence period living in North-east part of Karnataka.Results: The mean liver length is greater in males in all age groups and it increases in older children in the agegroup of 10-13yrs and 14-17 yrs among both males and females. Liver length highly correlated with each age andheight in both male and female children.Conclusion: The methods of measurement and analysis used in this study is standardized and easy to apply.Findings are handy and reliable and is suitable particularly for radiology and pediatric departments. Theresults of this study can be used as a practical and comprehensive guide to indicate the normal liver lengthrange for every child, according to his/ her age