title: Size and weight study of human kidney growth velocity during the last three months of pregnancy.
abstract: Increase in kidney size and weight was studied in 392 kidneys from 196 dead pre- and full-term infants. The kidneys, whose three main dimensions were measured with Vernier calipers, were rigorously chosen: premature infants from pathological pregnancies or born with developmental defects and stillbirths were excluded from this study. All the kidneys used were normal. The three-dimensional reference curves for kidney growth as a function of size, weight and age of the fetus had not been established before, and should allow a better quantification of anomalies of renal development.
mesh_terms: D001724:Birth Weight; D001835:Body Weight; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D007668:Kidney / Q000196:embryology*; D008297:Male; D009929:Organ Size; D011247:Pregnancy; D011263:Pregnancy Trimester, Third; D014427:Twins