In physiotherapy, the assessment of the limb volume is very important because it provides the opportunity of validating the treatment effect. The progress in the stages of physical treatment of oedema is depending on the oedema evolution. Various method where proposed to assess the oedema. The authors propose to analyse their sensitivity. Hypodermal experimental oedema where realized after progressive injection of physiologic fluid in cadavers upper limb. Technics compared in the study are the perometer, circumferences, hydrodensitometry and a CT scanner.