[Color contact thermography in the diagnosis of breast diseases].

One hundred of women with diseases of the mammary gland were examined. Breast cancer was found in 31 patients, 65 patients had various benign tumors, 4 women had chronic mastitis. Breast cancer was manifested by pronounced focal elevation of temperature over the tumor, temperature asymmetry of mammary glands, uneven boundaries of hyperthermia focus with "pathways" of hyperthermia running from the tumor to regional lymph nodes (in 75% of cases) even when no metastases are found histologically. Patients with alterations in the mammary glands referred to as precancerous, are thermographically characterized by focal hyperthermia with distinct boundaries. Nonproliferating forms of fibroadenoma, as a rule, do not manifest themselves by focal pictures without changes in the general background of the thermogram.