BRUCE-CHWATT L J
Bull World Health Organ. 1956;15(3-5):513-48.
For over a century, spleen palpation has been the method used for estimating the degree of endemic malaria in a community. As there is no way of estimating the mean volume and weight of the spleen on the live individual, the only alternative is to examine the organ at autopsy.There is very little published information concerning the weight and size of the spleen in Africans, in spite of the obvious importance and interest of this problem in holo-endemic malarious areas.The first aim of the present study was to assess the biometric constants for spleen- and liver-weights recorded in a large number of autopsies in persons of all age-groups of the African population from Lagos and its environs.The relevant constants from autopsies of Europeans in a non-malarious area were then obtained and the two sets of data were compared.Finally, the author determined to what extent the results of past splenometric surveys in the live population of Lagos could be correlated with the autopsy findings in the same area.
一个多世纪以来，脾脏触诊一直是用于评估社区疟疾流行程度的方法。由于无法在活体个体上估计脾脏的平均体积和重量，唯一的选择是在尸检时检查该器官。尽管这个问题在高度流行疟疾的地区具有明显的重要性和研究价值，但关于非洲人脾脏重量和大小的已发表信息却非常少。本研究的首要目的是评估从拉各斯及其周边地区的非洲人群所有年龄组的大量尸检中记录的脾脏和肝脏重量的生物统计学常数。然后获取非疟疾地区欧洲人尸检的相关常数，并对两组数据进行比较。最后，作者确定拉各斯活体人群过去脾脏测量调查的结果与同一地区尸检结果的相关程度。
