Carotidynia in thermographic picture
Hubácek, J.; Smolan, S.
Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis Facultatis Medicae 111: 407-409
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0301-2514 PMID: 2949522 Document Number: 257056
Fifty-eight patients with pain in the head and throat, 26 of them, with clincal symptoms of carotidynia, were subjected to clinical and thermographic examination. The affected side of the neck is remarkably warmer in the a. carotis area. Thermography represents in important contribution to the diagnosis of carotidynia. Thermographic picture changed with therapeutic response. The risen temperature of the involved area supports the inflammatory etiology of the carotidynia.