[Ultrasonographic changes in the abdominal organs in the 10th decade of life].
10 patients in perfect health, aged between 90 and 101 (mean age: 93 +/- 3), have been studied with echography in order to investigate the possible changes in volume and echo-pattern of abdominal organs, linked to the "physiological" aging. Our resulting data (reduced volume of liver and kidneys, changes in echo-pattern of pancreatic parenchyma, reduced thickness of renal cortical-medullary) seem to confirm the well known data of an atrophic change interesting the parenchyma of abdominal organs in aging: this latter, however, remains compatible with function preservation.
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Istituto di I Clinica Medica Generale, Università La Sapienza, Roma.
Rossi
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Cacciafesta
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D000005:Abdomen / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D010179:Pancreas / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014463:Ultrasonography
Alterazioni ultrasonografiche degli organi addominali nel decimo decennio di vita.