Spleen measurement

[maxmeier]

Is there studies on potential advantages of measuring the volume? Especially, since it's an very irregular shape, I dont see how it could be useful to use the term to measure volume of cubic shapes on the spleen. We dont measure a sphere with x*y*z. I would argue that the spleen is closer to being (half) a spheric shape than a cubic one.

[aaronlee]

I believe some machines even have a trace function for volume.

[DaveAZ]

I get a little frustrated at techs who do their sag spleen making sure they're lined up with the ribs intercostally (no rib shadows) but when they do what they call "transverse" they use the same window, rotate the transducer 180 degrees (creating essentially a mirror image of the sag, still with no rib shadows) and label it transverse.
if you want a true transverse, you need to rotate 90 degrees, not 180, and you will always have rib shadow in the transverse from the same window as the sag, but that's the most accurate measurement of the splenic width.

[MohmadfahimAfzali]

Did the diaphragm include measurment ?

[erde]

The SECOND way to measure is right, because the second measurement (after the length) is the transverse diameter ("from left to right"), whereas the third measurement should be the antero-posterior diameter, i.e., along the plain of the transduser, plased transvrrs to the long axis of the body.

[theshadowfax]

Our hospital for some reason wants us to measure the spleens a / b length and with both in the transverse plane. I hate it and I'm not sure why they want it that way, the only other thing that we do the A/p measurements in transverse for are thyroid nodules.

[diannawebb]

Agreed. Thank you! I've had this debate over kidneys, too so even that isn't safe lol

[laurengabrielle]

The real question is, how do you measure a transverse kidney? Lol