Normal Internal Organ Weight of Thai Adults Correlated to Body Length and Body Weight

Objective: Examine the relationship between the internal organ weight with body weight and body length. Material and Method: Analysis of data from 250 autopsies from the Ramathibodi Hospital from August 2003 to February 2005. The cases were from sudden unnatural death including accident, homicide and suicide and excluded decomposed bodies, fire related deaths and cases where medical treatment had been given. The age ranged from 15 to 88 years and there were 51 females and 199 males. Parson’s correlation coefficient was used to examine the relationship between the internal organ weight with body weight and body length. Results: The mean + standard deviation (SD) were represented by males and females respectively; Brai