[The use of contact thermography for evaluating joint inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis].
The paper is concerned with the results of a study of the hand joints in patients with different variants of a course and activity of rheumatoid arthritis by a method of contact liquid crystal thermography. Methods for assessment of thermography taking account of qualitative and quantitative indices were described. They showed correlation with a degree of disease activity, the presence of the rheumatoid factor, extraarticular symptoms and a time-period. Probable pathogenetic mechanisms of occurrence of characteristic thermographic shifts in rheumatoid arthritic patients were discussed.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007596:Joints / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013817:Thermography / Q000379:methods*
Primenenie kontaktnoĭ termografii dlia otsenki vospaleniia sustavov pri revmatoidnom artrite.