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The size and volume prostate gland ultrasound: pathology and variants of standards

Prostate gland: the size, the norm is an important issue for the assessment of the male body. This important organ, which is present only in males, sometimes quite deliberately called male heart - from size and condition it essentially depends not only sexy, but also the overall health of the person. It was the conformity of gland size normal indicates the possibility of its functioning in normal mode. Pathology, as the age factor, has significantly altered this characteristic, which gives the possibility of diagnosing diseases and the development of degenerative processes.

Features on

Prostate gland or prostate is a tubular-alveolar gland of the male urogenital system in the form of a unpaired organ in the form of chestnut or inverted trapezoid. It is located in the middle of the male pelvis below the bladder, covering his neck and proximal urethra. The beginning of the urethra traverses the gland, and the excretory ducts of the prostate open into the channel.

The prostate has a dense elastic consistency, made up of muscular, glandular and connective tissue surrounded by a capsule. Rear of iron is adjacent to the anterior rectal wall, that provides its palpation through the rectum.

Причины простатита

Ultrasound through the abdominal wall is the most affordable way. For it, the bladder is filled with saline, which serves as an acoustic window for observation of the prostate. Scanning is performed in the longitudinal and transverse direction with a simultaneous examination of the bladder and seminal vesicles. Obtained longitudinal section of the gland that determines the length and cross section, giving width and thickness. The boundaries of the prostate should be clear and smooth.

External scanning methods lack sufficient sensitivity, therefore, the detection of pathologies are more accurate, but traumatic, studies using TRUS. The sensor is inserted through the rectum into the prostate region. The advantage of this scanning is the ability to study prostate without filling the bladder. TRUS allows you to check on the shares to hold zonal differentiation, to explore paraproctitis venous plexus and periprostatic fiber. After determining the size of the prostate based on ultrasound (TRUS better) is easy to calculate the actual volume of the organ by the formula: V =0.52 x АхСхL (where A is the width in cm thickness in cm, L is the length in cm).

The analysis of the research results

Ultrasonography and MRI allows to identify a number of pathologies to change the structure of the prostate, increasing the size compared to the norm, and given the symptoms. Tothe main diseases of the prostate include:

  1. Prostatitis - inflammation of the glandular and connective tissues, which determines the ultrasound. The main symptoms - pain while urinating and erection, frequent urination, dysfunction of erection.
  2. Adenoma increase in size of the prostate diffuse nature of the violation of the outflow of urine. The hyperplastic tissue, characterized by the tendency to growth; neoplasms benign properties.
  3. Tumor - formation of cellular structures with a pronounced malignant character.
  4. Cyst. The appearance of cavities with a liquid filling.
  5. Calcifications The occurrence of stony deposits in the ducts - are oval or circular shape with a diameter up to 20 mm, accompanied by a chronic inflammatory reaction type.

The most typical disease with change in size of the prostate gland is BPH. In the development of this pathology is allocated 3 stages:

  1. Stage 1. The volume of the gland increases to 35-45 cm3, if the size of the body is 4-4,2 cm should talk about the beginning of the disease; symptoms are poorly expressed and celebrated mostly in the form of discomfort.
  2. Stage 2. The volume increases until 46-55 cm3, there are problems when urinating, frequent urge and sensation of pain.
  3. Stage 3. Volume exceeds 65 cm3 and can reach 110 cm3, bleeding and discharge from the anus, chronic constipation, is the outflow of lymph, which causes deformation of the lymph nodes, swelling of the legs. Requires surgical intervention.

In many ways, the degree of increase in size of the prostate determines subsequent treatment.

And the right therapy directly affects the quality and duration of life of the patient.