Reference ranges for organ weights of infants at autopsy: Results of >1,000 consecutive cases from a single centre

BMC Clinical Pathology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Pryce, Jeremy W ^a,b   Bamber, Andrew R ^b   Ashworth, Michael T ^a   Kiho, Liina ^a   Malone, Marian ^a   Sebire, Neil J ^b  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Infant; Organ weights; Postmortem

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENAL GLAND WEIGHT; AGE; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; HEART WEIGHT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY MASS; LIVER WEIGHT; LUNG WEIGHT; MALE; ORGAN WEIGHT; PANCREAS; PANCREAS WEIGHT; REFERENCE VALUE; SPLEEN WEIGHT; THYMUS; THYMUS WEIGHT;

EID: 84900524500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6890-14-18     Document Type: Article

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