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Autopsy Organ Weights
JIAFM, 2004; 26(3). ISSN 0971-0973

WEIGHTS OF HUMAN ORGANS AT AUTOPSY
IN CHANDIGARH ZONE OF NORTH-WEST INDIA
Dr. Dalbir Singh, Additional Professor & Head,
Dr. Y.S.Bansal, Assistant Professor,
Dr. Sreenivas M., Senior Resident,
Mr. Avadh Naresh Pandey, Research Fellow
Mrs. Seema Tyagi, Junior Technician,
Department of Forensic Medicine, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh

ABSTRACT
Mean organ weights in 2025 subjects who died and autopsied at Postgraduate Institute of Medical
Education and Research, Chandigarh revealed that they in general were heavier than reported from other parts of India. Various organs continued to attain their maximum weight up to 40-50 years of age.
KEY WORDS: Medico-legal deaths, organ weights, autopsy department of Forensic Medicine within 6 hours of death. In the present study, only those subjects were included who belonged to Chandigarh zone of north-west India i.e. states of Punjab, Haryana,
Himachal Pradesh and U.T. of Chandigarh (old combined Punjab) and in those who complete demographic profile was known. Subjects with septicemia or with gross organ pathology were not included in the present study. Standard autopsy protocol and procedure (as described in Current methods of Autopsy Practice by J Ludwig,2nd edition, W.B.Saunders Company) were employed for removal of various organs. After removing the extraneous tissues and draining of the blood, each organ was weighed on electronic weighing machine having the accuracy of ± 0.1gram. To see the role of age on various organ weights, the subjects were divided into seven age groups i.e. 60 years.

INTRODUCTION
Human body organs play a significant role in almost all the ancestral branches of medical sciences including forensic sciences, as any deviation in weight from the normal range suggests some pathological change in the organ and thus helps in interpreting the opinion regarding the cause of death in various

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