| Summary: | In this work, statistical formulae, with depend on anthropometric measurement and the age, are used to estimate the weight of the lower limb of 20 young, healthy, adults. Then, four clinical characteristics, the body mass index (BMI), the blood volume (BV), basal metabolic rate (BMR) and skin surface, also based on statistical formulae, are estimated for this sample population. Furthermore, the four clinical characteristics are estimated for 20 fictitious patients, with one lower limb amputated. From the sample population, the averaged results are the lower limb mass is 12.05 ± 2.79 kg, the BMI 22.89 ± 3.93 kg/m2, BV 3.99 ± 0.82 l, BMR 1,543.32 ± 236.98 kCal and body surface (BS) 1.66 ± 0.20 m2. While for the fictitious patients, the results are the BMI of 18.42 ± 3.17 kg/m2, BV of 3.60 ± 0.74 l, BMR of 1,399.07 ± 183.38 kCal and BS of 1.51 ± 0.18 m2. The clinic characteristics of the sample population, healthy-young adults showed, for instance, that the BV vary from 2.84 l and up to 5.67 l. The lower limb mass is approximately 20% of the total mass of the individual, while the BV, after the amputation, decreased by an amount of 10%. By having equations, depending on anthropometric measurements and age provides valuable information on the clinical characteristics of the patient. Thus, the clinicians, adding their experience to these results, may be more confident to the treatment and the evolution of the patient.
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