Telethermographic aspects of the dorsolumbar region in idiopathic scoliosis.
Thermography registers thermal radiations emitted by a body on the infrared frequency. It has recently been used increasingly in medicine for the study of the thermal distribution of the skin coating. This study was carried out on 66 patients with idiopathic scoliosis who presented different degrees of curvature in different sites. In 94% of the cases an area of thermal asymmetry was found at the level of the main curvature, evidence of a different blood supply and, therefore, of different activity of the paravertebral muscles.
D001831:Body Temperature; D006801:Humans; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D012867:Skin / Q000098:blood supply; D013817:Thermography