サーモグラフィにおける腰部神経根障害の診断基準

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Skin temperature measurements were carried out in 70 healthy subjects, and in 35 patients with lumbar disc herniation. In healty subjects, the degree of thermal asymmetry varied in different between each homologous regions of the body. The most of symptomatic patients had the manifestation of thermographic cold area coinciding with the pain distribution. When asymmetries exceeded 1 standard deviation from the mean temperature of homologous regions measured in healty subjects, the positive finding was 94% of the patients with lumbar disc herniation.
From these results, we consider that the temperature differences obtained in healthy subjects should be used as the reference standard for clinical diagnosis.