[Application of high-speed thermovisor TV-03 to rapid diagnosis of focal pathology of the nervous system].

The equipment for, and methods of thermovisional examinations developed by the authors and used in 300 patients with focal pathologies of the central and peripheral nervous system are described. In patients with intracranial processes, local changes of the skin temperature on the head usually correlating with the loci of the brain pathology are revealed. The correlation between the asymmetry of the thermal fields and the tumour localization in relation to the brain surface was found to be regular. Peculiarities of the thermographic picture are described with reference to the histobiological characteristics of the tumours. In meningiomas, the zone of the increased luminosity was rounded, homogenous and distinctly outlined; in gliomas reaching the brain surface, this zone is diffuse and less intense. Thermovisional characteristics of traumatic meningeal hematomas with regard to the time of their formation are presented. Acute hematomas were characterized by a lowered skin temperature above them, chronic ones by a brighter luminosity in the zone of their localization. For the first time the thermovisional syndrome of the traumatic foci of brain contusion and smashing is described. Thermovisional appearance of spinal cord tumours, intervertebral disc hernias, injures of peripheral nerves, etc. is also presented.