Measuring volume and density of human organs and its significance in medicine and forensic medicine: lung / 法医学杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECT@#To obtain values of normal human lung and diffuse pathological changes, in order to provide a simple and convenient diagnostic method for measuring human visceral organs in the autopsy of pathology and forensic pathology.@*METHODS@#The exact mass, volume and density of normal and pathological lung were synchronously measured with the intelligentized volume-densimeter made by authors.@*RESULTS@#The date-base about the volume and density of human lung with different races were established for anatomy, anthropology and biodynamics. In two cases of over-load in circulation and water toxicosis, the severe lung edema was proved with the scale of lung density, which was atypical edema in the lung tissue.@*CONCLUSION@#Measurement of visceral organs in the autopsy can assist to an integrative pathological diagnosis.