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KMID : 0388419960050020089
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Konkuk Journal of Medical Sciences
1996 Volume.5 No. 2 p.89 ~ p.98
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Use of D.I.T.I. in the Peripherial Nerve Injury of Extremities
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Abstract
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D.I.T.I.(Digital infrared thermographic imaging) system is noninvasive, easy to reading, objective and physiologic instrument by measuring and imaging infrared energy emitted from skin surface. It detects surface body heat into a visible display,
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is then photographed or videotaped as a permanent record. It graphically depicts temperature gradients over a given body surface area at a given time and has been used to study biologic thermoregulatory abnormalities directly or indirectly
influencing
skin temperature. As this review specifically addresses clinical problems involving the lower and upper extremities, thermography has been used in numerous sites to evaluate surface thermal changes in variety of conditions. These include spinal
nerve
root disorders(radiculopathy): nonradicular peripheral nerve impairment due to sensory or autonomic nerve irritation or damage, as in carpal tunnel syndrome ; brachial plexus disorders ; posttraumatic sympathetically maintained pain ; reflex
sympathetic
dystrophy ; vascular abnormalities including thromboses ; bony and soft tissue injuries and arthritis. Many of these conditions occur in upper extremity loci. Patients with injured extremities were evaluated with the aid of D.I.T.I.. Preoperative
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postoperative thermographic imaging were compared regarding to the correlation between the injuries and thermographic image. Close correlation revealed the significance of thermographic imaging in the field of the reconstruction of injured
extremities.
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