Remote thermography in funnel-shaped chest deformity in children
Levitskiĭ, A.F.; Marchenko, T.V.
Klinicheskaia Khirurgiia 6: 38-40
1993
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2130 PMID: 8271698 Document Number: 421986
Examined were 47 children with a funnel-shaped chest deformity and 18 healthy children (control group) ranging in age from 2 to 14 years. Thermal fields of the chest and hands were registered. New data characterizing the degree of pronouncement of chest deformity and heart shift were obtained. In patients with bronchopulmonary diseases, the areas of hyperthermia corresponding to inflammatory process location were noted. Thermography of the hands permitted, to obtain the data characterizing the pronouncement of respiratory failure.