title: [Measuring volume and density of human organs and its significance in medicine and forensic medicine: lung].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  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.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Measurement of visceral organs in the autopsy can assist to an integrative pathological diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department Forensic Medicine of Shantou University Medical College, Shantou 515031, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Jun
authors.initials: XJ
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Xiao-Ping
authors.initials: XP
authors.lastname: Lai
authors.forename: Yu-Bo
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Wen
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Jin-Chuan
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Mao-Yang
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000886:Anthropometry / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D001344:Autopsy; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008168:Lung / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009929:Organ Size; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000473:pathology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D055815:Young Adult