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One hundred of women with diseases of the mammary gland were examined. Breast cancer was found in 31 patients, 65 patients had various benign tumors, 4 women had chronic mastitis. Breast cancer was manifested by pronounced focal elevation of temperature over the tumor, temperature asymmetry of mammary glands, uneven boundaries of hyperthermia focus with "pathways" of hyperthermia running from the tumor to regional lymph nodes (in 75% of cases) even when no metastases are found histologically. Patients with alterations in the mammary glands referred to as precancerous, are thermographically characterized by focal hyperthermia with distinct boundaries. Nonproliferating forms of fibroadenoma, as a rule, do not manifest themselves by focal pictures without changes in the general background of the thermogram.

121 patients with different affections of the thyroid were examined by the method of color thermography. In patients with signs of hyperthyroidism or inflammation of the thyroid a local skin hyperthermia of the anterior jugular surface was observed. In the presence of euthyroid or hypothyroid struma skin temperature changes are either entirely absent, or there is a moderately pronounced local hypothermia. Cancer of the thyroid, as a rule, causes a more pronounced local skin hypothermia on the anterior jugular aspect.

The coloured contact thermography may be used as an additional method for diagnosis of diseases of the abdominal aorta and its major branches. In cases with aneurysms of the abdominal aorta the coloured thermograms showed the increased skin temperature of the frontal abdominal wall over its projection. The method may be used for differential diagnosis of the aneurysm and occlusion of the abdominal aorta.