Sheikhazadi Ardeshir, Sadr Seyed Shahabeddin, Ghadyani Mohammad Hasan, Taheri Seyed Kazem, Manouchehri Ali Asghar, Nazparvar Bashir, Mehrpour Omid, Ghorbani Mazaher
Department of Forensic Medicine, School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
J Forensic Leg Med. 2010 Feb;17(2):78-83. doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2009.07.012. Epub 2009 Aug 12.
Examine the normal adult internal organ weight and its relationship with body height, body weight, body mass index and age.
Prospective analysis of data from 1222 autopsies in Legal Medicine Organization of Iran from 1st January, 2007 to 1st September, 2008. All the subjects were adult residents of Tehran died from external causes and showed no pathological changes.
The weight of the brain, heart, lungs, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, thyroid gland, the pituitary gland, the suprarenal glands, testes, prostate, ovaries and the uterus were collected from 914 males and 308 females between 15 and 88 years. The weight of all the organs was correlated statistically with at least one external parameter with the exception of the pancreas in men, the uterus, the spleen and the thyroid in women. Organ weights decreased with age except for the heart and the prostate, and increased in relation to body height and/or BMI. Except for the brain, the organ weight showed a better statistical correlation with the BMI than the body height.
These results can be used as standard organ weights to determine abnormal evidences in Forensic and Pathologic corpses. However such results have to be regularly updated by pathologists in order to keep organ weight as a good criterion used in postmortem diagnosis.
研究正常成年人体内器官重量及其与身高、体重、体重指数和年龄的关系。
对2007年1月1日至2008年9月1日伊朗法医学组织的1222例尸检数据进行前瞻性分析。所有受试者均为德黑兰成年居民，死于外部原因且无病理变化。
收集了914名男性和308名女性（年龄在15至88岁之间）的脑、心、肺、肝、脾、胰、肾、甲状腺、垂体、肾上腺、睾丸、前列腺、卵巢和子宫的重量。除男性的胰腺、女性的子宫、脾脏和甲状腺外，所有器官的重量与至少一个外部参数存在统计学相关性。除心脏和前列腺外，器官重量随年龄增长而下降，与身高和/或体重指数呈正相关。除脑外，器官重量与体重指数的统计学相关性优于与身高的相关性。
这些结果可作为标准器官重量，用于确定法医和病理尸体中的异常证据。然而，病理学家必须定期更新这些结果，以便将器官重量作为死后诊断的良好标准。
