Organ Weights in Nonagenarians1
- 1 September 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Vol. 26 (9) , 385-390
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.1978.tb05383.x
Abstract
The main organs in a series of 39 nonagenarians were weighed at autopsy. The weights varied widely from subject to subject. Compared with average weights in younger subjects, the brains, livers, spleens, kidneys and lungs weighed less than usual in the majority of nonagenarians examined, but the hearts often were heavier than normal and many of them were hypertrophied.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- THE NEUROLOGY OF OLD AGE.The Lancet, 1931