Diagnosis, follow-up and prognosis of malignant melanomas by thermography

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.

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.

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.

detection of local recurrences and/or lymph-node metastases in an infra-clinical state.