Normal organ weights in men: Part II-the brain, lungs, liver, spleen, and kidneys

American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 368-372

  Molina, D Kimberley ^a   Dimaio, Vincent J M ^a  

^a Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office   (United States)

Author keywords

autopsy; brain; forensic pathology; kidney; liver; lung; normal organ weights; spleen

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; OBESITY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPLEEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; OBESITY; ORGAN SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPLEEN; THINNESS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870357805     PISSN: 01957910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAF.0b013e31823d29ad     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Garby L, Lammert G, Kock KF, et al. Weights of brain, heart, liver, kidneys, and spleen in healthy and apparently healthy adult danish subjects. Am J Hum Biol. 1993;5:291-296
2. Smith HL. The relation of the weight of the heart to the weight of the body and the weight of the heart to age. Am Heart J. 1928;4:79-93
3. SK-5001 Instruction Manual. Tokyo, Japan: A&D Co, Ltd. 1162-2A-IE. March 11, 1997
4. Lindboe CF. Brain weight: What does it mean? Clin Neuropathol. 2003;22(6):263-265
5. Sanchez R, Morales M, Cardozo J. Peso del encefalo normal del venezolano adulto segun sevo y edad [Weight of the normal brain of the Venezuelan adult according to sex and age]. Invest Clin. 1997;38(2):83-93
6. Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI). Defining, Establishing and Verifying Reference Intervals in the Clinical Laboratory; Approved Guideline. 3rd ed. CLSI document C28-A3. Wayne, PA: Clinical Standards Institute; 2008
7. de la Grandmaison GL, Clairand I, Durigon M. Organ weight in 684 adult autopsies: New tables for a Caucasoid population. Forensic Sci Int. 2001;119:149-154
8. Kasiske BL, Umen AJ. The influence of age, sex, race and body habitus on kidney weight in humans. Arch Pathol Lab Med ;110:55-60
9. Boyd E. Normal variability in weight of the adult human liver and spleen. Arch Pathol. 1933;16:350-372
10. Deland FH, North WA. Relationship between liver size and body size. Radiology. 1968;91(6):1195-1198
11. Deland FH. Normal spleen size. Radiology. 1970;97(3):589-592
12. Myers J, Segal RJ. Weight of the spleen. I. Range of normal in a nonhospital population. Arch Pathol. 1974;98(1):33-35
13. Sprogoe-Jakobsen S, Sprogoe-Jakobsen U. The weight of the normal spleen. Forensic Sci Int. 1997;88:215-223
14. Whimster W. Normal lung weights in Jamaicans. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1971;103(1):85-90
15. Whimster WF, MacFarlane A. Normal lung weights in a white population. Am Rev Respir Dis. 1974;110(4):478-783
16. Moar JJ, Reinach S. Renal weights in the southern African black population. Am J Phys Anthropol. 1988;76:105-110.