[Diagnosis of breast carcinoma with thermographic methods: tele-thermovision, plate thermography]

The diagnosis of carcinoma of the mamma with the aid of tele-thermovision and liquid-crystal-thermography A review is given on thermographic diagnosis of carcinomas of the mamma with the aid of tele-thermovision and liquid-crystal-thermography. 132 carcinoma cases were microscopically examined with cytomorphological criteria. The microscopic and thermographic results were compared. The thermographic diagnosis "suspicious" is dependent on the diameter of the tumour, the vascularisation, the essential cytomorphological criteria as mitosis, prominence and size of nucleoli as well as deviation of the nucleous/plasma ratio. There was no dependence on the distance of the tumour from the surface of the breast and even on the perifocal infiltration with lymphoid cells. The accuracy rate in diagnosis with liquid-crystal-thermography is about 74%; false negative and false positive results both are about 9%. The accuracy rate for tele-thermovision is about 10% lower. The detection rate of carcinoma stage T1 ranges around 50%.