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First published: 12 July 2006
The publisher and authors would like to draw the reader's attention to an error in the following article:
Motoji Sawabe, Mari Saito, Makiko Naka, Ichiro Kasahara, Yuko Saito, Tomio Arai, Akihiko Hamamatsu and Takuji Shirasawa. Standard organ weights among elderly Japanese who died in hospital, including 50 centenarians. Pathol Int 2006; 56: 315–323.
The article contains an error in Table 1: the headings Men and Women were reversed. The correct Table 1 is shown below.
| Men | Women | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Mean ± SD | CV | n | Mean ± SD | CV | |
| Body height (cm) | 890 | 161.1 ± 6.9 | 0.04 | 764 | 147.4 ± 7.2 | 0.05 |
| Body weight (kg) | 891 | 44.3 ± 9.9 | 0.22 | 764 | 38.0 ± 10.0 | 0.26 |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 891 | 17.0 ± 3.4 | 0.20 | 764 | 17.4 ± 3.9 | 0.22 |
| Brain (g) | 673 | 1275.5 ± 116.1 | 0.09 | 597 | 1140.7 ± 113.7 | 0.10 |
| Heart (g) | 880 | 342.0 ± 89.9 | 0.26 | 753 | 312.3 ± 83.0 | 0.27 |
| Lung, left (g) | 225 | 404.2 ± 159.6 | 0.39 | 312 | 284.8 ± 106.3 | 0.37 |
| Lung, right (g) | 227 | 474.2 ± 179.6 | 0.38 | 313 | 351.9 ± 134.0 | 0.38 |
| Liver (g) | 668 | 920.3 ± 283 | 0.31 | 589 | 794.7 ± 251.7 | 0.32 |
| Kidney, left (g) | 871 | 120.8 ± 36 | 0.30 | 740 | 98.9 ± 31.1 | 0.31 |
| Kidney, right (g) | 873 | 113.6 ± 34.2 | 0.30 | 745 | 94.3 ± 29.6 | 0.31 |
| Spleen (g) | 779 | 80.7 ± 51.8 | 0.64 | 694 | 62.8 ± 41.5 | 0.66 |
| Hypophysis (g) | 718 | 0.55 ± 0.13 | 0.24 | 608 | 0.65 ± 0.16 | 0.25 |
| Thyroid (g) | 807 | 13.5 ± 5.1 | 0.38 | 626 | 11.6 ± 5.1 | 0.44 |
| Adrenal, left (g) | 780 | 5.6 ± 1.7 | 0.30 | 676 | 4.9 ± 1.5 | 0.31 |
| Adrenal, right (g) | 780 | 5.1 ± 1.5 | 0.29 | 686 | 4.6 ± 1.3 | 0.28 |
- BMI, body mass index; CV, coefficient of variation (SD/mean).
