Table 3.

Comparisons of volume of spleen in different population and by different techniques.

Authors	Techniques	Population	Mean volume of spleen (cm³)	Range (cm³)
Liu et al. [11]	Multidetector CT scan	Chinese	190.94 ± 70.37	—
Prassopoulos et al. [12]	Summation-area technique (CT scan)	European	214.6	107.2–314
Mazonakis et al. [13]	Random marking on MR scan	European	208.0 mL	115–293.6 mL
	Manual planimetry on MR scan	European	204.8 mL	117.9–289.8 mL
Hidaka et al. [14]	3D USG	Japanese	104 mL	—
Zhang et al. [15]	Radionuclide scan	—	185	—
Hoefs et al. [16]	Liver-spleen scan	American	201 ± 77	—
Henderson et al. [17]	Summation-area of CT scan	European	209 ± 76	—
Picardi et al. [18]	USG	European	140 mL	60–200 mL
Loftus et al. [19]	Water displacement	European	110 ± 70	26–250
Lamb et al. [7]	USG & CT –prolate ellipsoid	European	—	107–314
Spielmann et al. [20]	USG-prolate ellipsoid	American	333.6 ± 116.1	—