title: [Role of teletermography in the diagnosis of primary tumors of soft tissues and bones].
abstract: The thermographic behaviour of bone and soft tissue tumors (168 malignant), submitted to this examination from 1971 to 1981, has been retrospectively analyzed and statistically evaluated. In the group of malignant neoplasms, thermography reached a good sensitivity (81.5%), a little better (but not significantly) in soft tissue tumors. Mainly three pathological features have been analyzed: histological type, size and site of neoplastic masses. None of them appears to be related with the result of thermographic examination. The authors emphasize (also from a possible prognostic point of view) the peculiar behaviour of Ewing's sarcoma, whose tendency to uniform distribution through the different thermographic classes cannot be currently explained.
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D012509:Sarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013817:Thermography / Q000379:methods
vernacular_title: Il ruolo della teletermografia nella diagnosi dei tumori primitivi delle parti molli e dello scheletro.