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Ultrasonographic assessment of splenic volume and its correlation with body parameters in a Jordanian population

Darwish H. Badran, Heba M. Kalbouneh, Maher T. Al-Hadidi, Amjad T. Shatarat, Emad S. Tarawneh, Azmy M. Hadidy and Waleed S. Mahafza
Saudi Medical Journal August 2015, 36 (8) 967-972; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.8.11809
Darwish H. Badran
From the Department of Anatomy and Histology (Badran, Kalbouneh, Al-Hadidi, Shatarat), and the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (Tarawneh, Hadidy, Mahafza), Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
MD, PhD
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Heba M. Kalbouneh
From the Department of Anatomy and Histology (Badran, Kalbouneh, Al-Hadidi, Shatarat), and the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (Tarawneh, Hadidy, Mahafza), Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
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  • For correspondence: [email protected]
Maher T. Al-Hadidi
From the Department of Anatomy and Histology (Badran, Kalbouneh, Al-Hadidi, Shatarat), and the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (Tarawneh, Hadidy, Mahafza), Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
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Amjad T. Shatarat
From the Department of Anatomy and Histology (Badran, Kalbouneh, Al-Hadidi, Shatarat), and the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (Tarawneh, Hadidy, Mahafza), Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
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Emad S. Tarawneh
From the Department of Anatomy and Histology (Badran, Kalbouneh, Al-Hadidi, Shatarat), and the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (Tarawneh, Hadidy, Mahafza), Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
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Azmy M. Hadidy
From the Department of Anatomy and Histology (Badran, Kalbouneh, Al-Hadidi, Shatarat), and the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (Tarawneh, Hadidy, Mahafza), Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
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Waleed S. Mahafza
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vol. 36 no. 8 967-972
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.8.11809
PubMed 
26219448

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received March 24, 2015
  • Accepted May 26, 2015
  • Published online August 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Darwish H. Badran, MD, PhD,
  2. Heba M. Kalbouneh, BDS, PhD⇑,
  3. Maher T. Al-Hadidi, MD, PhD,
  4. Amjad T. Shatarat, MD, PhD,
  5. Emad S. Tarawneh, MD, FFR,
  6. Azmy M. Hadidy, MD, FRCR and
  7. Waleed S. Mahafza, MD, FRCR
  1. From the Department of Anatomy and Histology (Badran, Kalbouneh, Al-Hadidi, Shatarat), and the Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (Tarawneh, Hadidy, Mahafza), Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Heba Kalbouneh, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Histology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan. E-mail: heba.kalbouneh{at}ju.edu.jo
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