[Plate thermography in post-operative monitoring (author's transl)]

The authors report the data obtained from plate thermography--a technique based on the liquid crystal principle--in more than 200 patients with arteritis. More specifically, the study compares the results of arteriography, Doppler effect velocimetry and plate thermography before and after surgery in two groups of patients with similar conditions (20 cases of aorto-bifemoral prosthesis and 10 cases of lumbar sympathectomy). The results were comparable in both groups, as well as in most of the 200 patients operated upon in the same unit for various arterial diseases of the lower limb. Plate thermography is easy to perform and constitutes a reliable method for monitoring peripheral blood circulation after surgery.