[Use of color contact thermography for diagnosing aortic and iliac artery diseases]

The coloured contact thermography may be used as an additional method for diagnosis of diseases of the abdominal aorta and its major branches. In cases with aneurysms of the abdominal aorta the coloured thermograms showed the increased skin temperature of the frontal abdominal wall over its projection. The method may be used for differential diagnosis of the aneurysm and occlusion of the abdominal aorta.