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body surface area  Body surface area plays a key role in several medical fields, including cancer chemotherapy, transplantology, burn treatment and DuBois D; DuBois EF: A formula to estimate the approximate surface area if height and weight be known Arch Int Med 1916 17:863-71

According to Mosteller's simplified calculation of body-surface area in metric terms the body surface area = the square root of product of the Pediatric doses of medications are generally based on body surface area or weight To calculate a child's BSA, draw a straight line from the height

We conclude that the simple Jacobson equation for body surface area : BSA, m2 = (Wt + HT- 60)100 has sufficient agreement with the Body surface area is the most commonly used metric for body size indexation of echocardiographic measures, but its use in patients who