Figure 4.
Relationship between body weight and liver size, demonstrated here by the individual liver sizes (•) in our 162 patients calculated with the formula proposed by Johnson et al.[32]: liver volume = 0.722 × BSA1.176; and the allometrically calculated liver size (dark line) based on the data obtained by the previous formula and allometric principles [26]: liver volume = 0.46 × (body weight of child per 70 kg)0.75