{"title":"Diagnosis, follow-up and prognosis of malignant melanomas by thermography.","authors":"P Bourjat, M Gautherie, E Grosshans","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Unlabelled: </strong>Reference was made to a series of 35 cases of malignant melanoma which had not been operated on, and contributions of thermography in the following were taken into consideration. 1.</p><p><strong>Diagnosis: </strong>the complementary nature of clinical, thermographic and histological information, both for the tumour and the lymph nodes; differentiation between less thermogenic malignant melanomas (Dubreuilh melanosis, LMM and SSM) and the forms giving rise to extensive and intense hyperthermy (NM). 2.</p><p><strong>Prognosis: </strong>proposal of a prognostical classification which permits the evaluation of malignancy and, to a certain degree, the prediction of survival in a manner which is more significant than the histo-topographical classification. 3.</p><p><strong>Follow-up: </strong>detection of local recurrences and/or lymph-node metastases in an infra-clinical state.</p>","PeriodicalId":75594,"journal":{"name":"Bibliotheca radiologica","volume":" 6","pages":"115-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1975-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Bibliotheca radiologica","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Unlabelled: Reference was made to a series of 35 cases of malignant melanoma which had not been operated on, and contributions of thermography in the following were taken into consideration. 1.
Diagnosis: the complementary nature of clinical, thermographic and histological information, both for the tumour and the lymph nodes; differentiation between less thermogenic malignant melanomas (Dubreuilh melanosis, LMM and SSM) and the forms giving rise to extensive and intense hyperthermy (NM). 2.
Prognosis: proposal of a prognostical classification which permits the evaluation of malignancy and, to a certain degree, the prediction of survival in a manner which is more significant than the histo-topographical classification. 3.
Follow-up: detection of local recurrences and/or lymph-node metastases in an infra-clinical state.