[Dynamic telethermography in mammary carcinoma]

Dynamic telethermography, a still new technique, enables to obtain original data on the behaviour of mammary carcinomas both in space and time. It deserves to be used in conjunction with the other clinical and paraclinical methods in the "non bloody combined diagnosis" of such tumors. In spite of 5 per cent of false positive and 8 to 16 per cent false negative results, it helps to correct over one half of erroneous radioclinical diagnosis. It often brings accurate data on extension, multifocality and topography of these carcinomas and plays an efficient part in post-therapeutical systematic periodical surveillance, more especially when the breast has been preserved. Capable of detecting small non-palpable adenocarcinomas, it could be used as a thuthworthy screening procedure. Finally, it demonstrates "cold" cancers and too "hot" cancers, the former of probably slow development, the latter developing rapidly. Beyond a simple positive diagnosis, it is contributory to the first steps of clinical physiology of breast carcinomas, which is all the more remarkable because it is a true non-traumatic tele-measurement.