Thermography

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Abstract
Breast thermography is both misunderstood and overestimated by physicians and laymen alike. Since a unilateral increase in heat emanation is a nonspecific response to a variety of breast lesions, it is not surprising that thermography (i.e. the pictorial representation of infrared emanations from the skin) does not succeed in separating benign from malignant tumors in symptomatic females.1 The goal of the thermography-mammography tandem and the primary role of both examinations is not the differentiation of benign and malignant masses, but the detection of nonpalpable carcinoma. For the general population, therefore, it may well become an effective screening technic. It should . . .
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