Experimental and preliminary clinical experience with thermography for avascular nephrotomy.
A simple method is presented for demarcation between different arterial areas, which allows the performance of nephrotomies with minimal bleeding and subsequent renal ischemia. The thermal gradient that exists between the segment with occluded blood supply and the adjacent ones retaining their blood supply is defined by a liquid cholesterol crystal sheet.
D000818:Animals; D004285:Dogs; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000098:blood supply / Q000601:surgery*; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D013817:Thermography