A STATISTICAL NOTE ON CEREBELLAR AND BRAIN‐STEM WEIGHT IN MONGOLISM
A STATISTICAL NOTE ON CEREBELLAR AND BRAIN‐STEM WEIGHT IN MONGOLISM
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蒙古族小脑和脑干重量的统计记录
DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2788.1966.tb00173.x
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发表时间:
2008
影响因子:
3.6
通讯作者:
E. Slater
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作者:
L. Crome;V. Cowie;E. Slater
METHOD AND RESULTS 1 he total brain weight and the weight of ttir brain-. stem and cerebellum were obtained from the post-mortem examinations of 19 patients with mongolism in the Fountain Group of Hospitals {Table 1). These were compared, matching for age and sex, with the values reported by Krogman (1941) for Crerman children from birth to 14 years, taking these as a standard for normal sul) jects. The ratio of observed to expected weights showed both a diminution of the total brain weiglit and a di. sproportionately more extreme diminution of the weight of brain-stem and cerebellum, taken together. Whereas tbe brain as a whole was reduced on average to 76% of its normal weight, the weight of brain-stem and cerebellum was on average less tban f> 6% of normal. Tins difference of 10% is highly significant statistically. Within individuals the two weights are correlated with one another; in 17 out of the 19 ca. ses the ratio of observation to expectation was higher for total brain than for brain-stem and cerebellum, and in only two cases {Nos. 11 and 17) was the opposite true. The mean difference between these two ratios witliin individuals was 10.2%±2.3%, for which t^ 4.43, p<.() 01 {see Table 2). It appears, therefijre, that a disproportionate reduction in the size of the cerebellum and brain-stem may be a specific feature of mongulisni. Another way of looking at the data is not without interest. Reference to Krogman's tables shows that, in tlif American standards he quotes, the proportion of the total brain weight made up by the combined weight of cerebellum and brainstem is very constantly 12% after the age of 1 year. At birth the proportion is 7.3%, at 3 months 7.9%, at 9 months 11.0% and at 1 year 11.5%. From the data. supplied about Cierman children, we can calculate the proportion as 12.48% in boys and 12.97% in girls, these two figures not differing significantly from one another, and both)) eing invariant in respect of age from one year onwards. The mean fur both sexes is 12.7%, and the standard deviation 1.1%. Table I shows the percentage in each of our 19 cases. It will he s; een that in all but two cases the value is less than