Calculation of the volume of the grafted kidney. Value of this measurement by echotomography in renal transplantation
Duval, J.M.; Le Guen, J.; Lanchou, G.; Scarabin, J.M.
Bulletin de l'Association des Anatomistes 60(170): 507-513
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0376-6160 PMID: 800727 Document Number: 103716
From a necropsy series of 14 kidneys, it is very easy to prove, that there is a quite good correlation between the theorical calculated volume of the kidney and its real volume. It is possible to compare the kidney to an ovoid, and to calculate its volume, knowing the 3 dimensions which are its length, its width, its depth. In this way, by echotomography it is possible to estimate these three parameters at the level of the transplanted and to calculate the volume and if, after two successive examinations of control, the kidney volume is found to be enlarged (over 20%) a reject phenomenon must be diagnozed.