ArticleEuropean journal of pediatrics2015
Infrared thermography is useful for ruling out fractures in paediatric emergencies.
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- Uses of infrared thermography in acute illness: a systematic review.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Thermal Changes During Clavicle Fracture Healing in Children.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Convolutional Neural Network to Classify Infrared Thermal Images of Fractured Wrists in Pediatrics.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Detecting bone lesions in the emergency room with medical infrared thermography.Biomedical engineering online · 2022Article
- Thermography as a non-ionizing quantitative tool for diagnosing periapical inflammatory lesions.BMC oral health · 2021Article
- Infrared thermography in the diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries: A protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.Medicine · 2020Article
- Infrared thermal imaging as a screening tool for paediatric wrist fractures.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2020Article
- Evaluation of high resolution thermal imaging to determine the effect of vertebral fractures on associated skin surface temperature in children with osteogenesis imperfecta.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2018Article
- Development of a high-resolution infrared thermographic imaging method as a diagnostic tool for acute undifferentiated limp in young children.Medical & biological engineering & computing · 2018Article
- Infrared thermography in paediatrics: a narrative review of clinical use.BMJ paediatrics open · 2017Article
- Infrared thermographic assessment of changes in skin temperature during hypoglycaemia in patients with type 1 diabetes.Diabetologia · 2015Article
- Clinical Utility of Infrared Thermography in Pediatric Patients: A Systematic Review of Surgical and Nonsurgical Applications.Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric SurgeonsReview
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Abstract
unlabelledMusculoskeletal injuries are a leading cause of paediatric injuries and emergency department visits in Western countries. Diagnosis usually involves radiography, but this exposes children without fractures to unnecessary ionising radiation. We explored whether infrared thermography could provide a viable alternative in trauma cases. We compared radiography and thermal images of 133 children who had been diagnosed with a trauma injury in the emergency unit of a Spanish hospital. As well as the thermal variables in the literature, we introduced a new quantifier variable, the size of the lesion. Decision tree models were built to assess the technique's accuracy in diagnosing whether a bone had been fractured or not. Infrared thermography had a sensitivity of 0.91, a specificity of 0.88 and a negative predictive value of 0.95. The new lesion size variable introduced appeared to be of main importance to the discriminatory power of the method.
conclusionThe high negative predictive value of infrared thermography suggests that it is a promising method for ruling out fractures.
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