[Radionuclide and thermographic diagnosis of laryngeal tumors]

The paper is concerned with an analysis of the results of positive scintigraphy and thermography obtained from an investigation of 84 laryngeal and laryngopharyngeal cancer patients. The diagnostic accuracy of positive scintigraphy (38 patients) was 89.5%, that of thermography--78.9%, of both methods--93.3%. The authors described methodological aspects of the use of both methods and worked out indications for their use in combined diagnosis of laryngeal cancer: topical and differential diagnosis of malignant and benign laryngeal lesions, definition of a degree of tumor spreading (visualization of metastases to the lymph nodes), determination of the presence of laryngeal cancer recurrences and their differential diagnosis with postradiation edemas.