Sonographic assessment of normal kidney dimensions in the first year of life-A study of 992 healthy infants

Pediatric Nephrology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1143-1150

  Vujic, Ana ^a   Kosutic, Jovan ^b   Bogdanovic, Radovan ^b   Prijic, Sergej ^b   Milicic, Biljana ^c   Igrutinovic, Zoran ^a  

^a University Children's Hospital of Kragujevac   (Serbia)

^b Mother and Child Health Institute Belgrade rs   (Serbia)

^c University Clinical Center   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Infants; Normal kidney length and volume

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; KIDNEY; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34548461276     PISSN: 0931041X     EISSN: 1432198X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-007-0478-2     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Rosenbaum DM, Korngold E, Teele RL (1984) Sonographic assessment of renal length in normal children. AJR Am J Roentgenol 142:467-469
2. Blane CE, Bookstein FL, DiPietro MA, Kelsch RC (1985) Sonographic standards for normal infant kidney length. AJR Am J Roentgenol 145:1289-1291
3. Konus OL, Ozdemir A, Akkaya A, Erbas G, Celik H, Isik S (1998) Normal liver, spleen, and kidney dimensions in neonates, infants, and children: Evaluation with sonography. AJR Am J Roentgenol 171:1693-1698
4. Weisenbach J, Horvath M, Jeges S, Adamovich K, Huszar T (2001) Normal percentiles of kidney size in children as measured by ultrasonography. Orv Hetil 142:71-74
5. Sargent MA, Long G, Karmali M, Cheng SM (1997) Interobserver variation in sonographic estimation of renal volume in children. Pediatr Radiol 27:663-666
6. Dixit PK, Sahai SB, Rath B, Garg A, Chowdhury V (1994) Norms for renal parenchymal volume in Indian children. Indian Pediatr 31:1059-1064
7. Zerin JM, Meyer RD (2000) Sonographic assessment of renal length in the first year of life: The problem of "spurious nephromegaly". Pediatr Radiol 30:52-57
8. Han BK, Babcock DS (1985) Sonographic measurements and appearance of normal kidneys in children. AJR Am J Roentgenol 145:611-616
9. De-Sanctis JT, Connolly SA, Bramson RT (1998) Effect of patient position on sonographically measured renal length in neonates, infants and children. AJR Am J Roentgenol 170:1381-1383
10. Schmidt I, Main K, Damqaard I, Mau C, Haavisto AM, Chellakooty M, Kirsten AB, Petersen JH, Scheike T, Olgaard K (2004) Kidney growth in 717 healthy children aged 0-18 months: A longitudinal cohort study. Pediatr Nephrol 19:992-1003
11. Cockburn DM (2006) How to make clinical decisions from statistics. Clin Exp Optom 89:176-183
12. Loftus WK, Gent RJ, LeQuesne GW, Metreweli C (1998) Renal length in Chinese children: Sonographic measurement and comparison with western data. J Clin Ultrasound 26:349-352
13. Dinkel E, Ertel M, Dittrich M, Peters H, Berres M, Schulte-Wissermann H (1985) Kidney size in childhood. Sonographical growth charts for kidney length and volume. Pediatr Radiol 15:38-43
14. Jelen Z (1993) The value of ultrasonography as a screening procedure of the neonatal urinary tract: A survey of 1021 infants. Int Urol Nephrol 25:3-10
15. Holloway H, Jones TB, Robinson AE, Harpen MD, Wiseman HJ (1983) Sonographic determination of renal volumes in normal neonates. Pediatr Radiol 13:212-214
16. Scott JES, Hunter EW, Lee REJ, Matthews JNS (1990) Ultrasound measurement of renal size in newborn infants. Arch Dis Child 65:361-364
17. Fritz GA, Riccabona M, Bohdal G, Quehenberger F (2003) Accuracy of renal volume assessment in children by threedimensional sonography. Rofo 175:540-546
18. Chan KBY, Man-Son-Hing M, Molnar FJ, Laupacis A (2001) How well is the clinical importance of study results reported? An assessment of randomized controlled trials. CMAJ 165:1197-1202