ArticleBiomedical engineering online2022
Detecting bone lesions in the emergency room with medical infrared thermography.
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- Uses of infrared thermography in acute illness: a systematic review.Frontiers in medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Monitoring distal radius fractures during rehabilitation using infrared thermography.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
- Thermography in Anesthetic Peripheral Nerve Blocks When Using Different Local Anesthetics.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A hybrid GAN-based deep learning framework for thermogram-based breast cancer detection.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Thermal profile of the spine for the assessment of bone metabolic disorders.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Trends in Smart Helmets With Multimodal Sensing for Health and Safety: Scoping Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Article
- Current Use of Infrared Thermography in Orthopaedic and Bone or Joint Trauma Patients-Can We Identify Postoperative Infection? A Narrative Systematic Review.Strategies in trauma and limb reconstructionReview
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Abstract
introductionLow- to high-energy impact trauma may cause from small fissures up to extended bone losses, which can be classified as closed or opened injuries (when they are visible at a naked eye).
objectiveThe aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of clinical diagnosis of bone trauma through medical infrared thermography, in a hospital emergency room.
methodsForty-five patients with suspected diagnosis of bone fracture were evaluated by means of medical infrared images, and the data correlated with the gold standard radiographic images, in the anteroposterior, lateral, and oblique views, at the orthopedic emergency department. The control group consisted of thermal images of the contralateral reference limb of the volunteers themselves. Data were acquired with a medical grade infrared camera in the regions of interest (ROIs) of leg, hand, forearm, clavicle, foot, and ankle.
resultsIn all patients evaluated with a diagnosis of bone fracture, the mean temperature of the affected limb showed a positive difference greater than 0.9 °C (towards the contralateral), indicating the exact location of the bone trauma according, while the areas diagnosed with reduced blood supply, showed a mean temperature with a negative variation.
conclusionClinical evaluation using infrared imaging indicates a high applicability potential as a tool to support quick diagnosis of bone fractures in patients with acute orthopedic trauma in an emergency medical setting. The thermal results showed important physiological data related to vascularization of the bone fracture and areas adjacent to the trauma well correlated to radiographic examinations.
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