Since 1981, we have performed to measure the skin temprature by the thermography for over a thousand patients in our O. P. D. In this report we discuss the continuous change of the thermogram in twenty-seven cases, including 8 bone tumors, 10 soft part tumors and 9 inflammatory diseases which have been examined since their first visit.
The mean value of the thermal difference between the focus side and the control side of malignant bone or soft part tumors was about 1.3°C before the chemotherapy etc. After the treatment the difference of temprature became about 0.3°C. In benign bone or soft part tumors, the thermogram of the lesions were contaminated by the operative scars. And in the cases of inflammatory diseases, the hot area in the thermogram disappeared rapidly after the conservative or surgical treatment.
