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A method to calculate the volume of palatine tonsils
M P Prim1, J I De Diego, C García-Bermúdez
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology, La Paz Hospital, Autonomous University, Madrid, Spain. mpprimjidediego@gmail.com
Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to obtain a mathematical formula to calculate the tonsillar volume out of its measurements assessed on surgical specimens. Thirty consecutive surgical specimens of pediatric tonsils were studied. The maximum lengths ("a"), widths ("b"), and depths ("c") of the dissected specimens were measured in millimeters, and the volume of each tonsil was measured in milliliters. One-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to check the normality of the sample. To calculate the reproducibility of the quantitative variables, intraclass correlation coefficients were used. Two formulas with high reproducibility (coefficient R between 0.75 and 1) were obtained: 1) [a*b*c* 0.5236] with R = 0.8688; and 2) [a*b*b* 0.3428] with R = 0.9073. It is possible to calculate the volume of the palatine tonsils in surgical specimens precisely enough based on their three measures, or their two main measures (length and width).
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