Uselessness of thermography for diagnosis and follow-up of cutaneous malignant melanoma.
Thermography is useless for diagnosis of cutaneous malignant melanomas (CMM). In fact, false negative thermograms (29.9%) are much more numerous than clinically suspicious cases. Thermography is useless for follow-up of CMM. False-negative and false-positive thermograms of metastatic lymph nodes, subcutaneous nodules and removal site of CMM are much too numerous.
D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D013817:Thermography