[Morphometry of the kidney. Applied study in urology and imaging]

A morphometric study was made on 100 human kidneys obtained by necropsies from 50 cadavers without renal pathology and ranging in age from 16 of 60 years (32.0 +/- 12.1 years). The results of the renal measures showed the following averages: length (right kidney 10.97 cm; left kidney = 11.21.cm), Width of the superior pole (right kidney = 6.40 cm; left kidney = 6.48 cm), width of the inferior pole (right kidney = 5.59 cm; left kidney = 5.39 cm), thickness (right kidney = 3.21 cm; left kidney = 3.37 cm). Left kidney presented usually greater length, greater width and greater thickness than right kidney. There are positive relations between several measures of the renal morphometry. Allometric method was used in order to study the correlation renal length vs body length and to make the curves.