Organ weight in 684 adult autopsies: new tables for a Caucasoid population

GL de la Grandmaison, I Clairand, M Durigon - Forensic science …, 2001 - Elsevier
The weights of normal organs were retrospectively culled for the years 1987–1991 from 684
forensic autopsy cases. All the subjects were Caucasoid adults who died of external causes
and showed no pathological changes. The weights of the following organs were available:
the heart, the right and the left lung, the liver, the spleen, the pancreas, the right and the left
kidney and the thyroid gland. The external parameters used for statistical correlation were
the age, the height, the body weight and the body mass index (BMI) of the deceased. The …