[The thermographic diagnosis of pneumonia in patients with acute craniocerebral trauma]. / Teplovizionnaia diagnostika pnevmonii u bol'nykh s cherepno-mozgovoi travmoi v ostrom periode.

The article discusses the results of thermovision examination of 75 patients with pneumonia which developed in the acute period of craniocerebral trauma. The method was found to be more informative than the routine radiography of the lungs. The possibilities of the method make it possible to establish an early diagnosis of pulmonary complications and, in some cases, to reveal a precise clinical picture.

[Diagnostic thermoradiolocation in neurosurgery]. / Diagnosticheskaia teploradiolokatsiia v neirokhirurgii.

From the examination of 915 patients with neurosurgical pathology the authors showed the possibility of mediated thermoimaging of localized lesions in the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. The combination of local and distant thermoasymmetries which are realized through reflex mechanisms of vegetovascular innervation is a characteristic feature of the thermovision syndromes in the infrared wave bands. It was proved experimentally and clinically that radiothermometry in the millimeter and centimeter wave bands yields information on the temperature of the surface and deep-seated cerebral tissues through the hairs on the head.

[Mechanisms of temperature asymmetries of the skin of the head in focal lesions of the brain]. / O mekhanizmakh temperaturnykh asimmetrii kozhi golovy pri ochagovykh porazheniiakh mozga.

Analysis of thermograms recorded through intact skin and during operations in 61 patients with brain tumours differing in histobiological properties and in 63 patients with compressing forms of craniocerebral injury as well as analysis of the results of angiography and rheoencephalography and operative findings disclosed the mechanisms of the formation of pathological luminescence of the skin on the head.

[Thermovision diagnosis of traumatic compression of the brain]. / Teplovizionnaia diagnostika travmaticheskogo sdavleniia golovnogo mozga.

The author used the Soviet-made fast-operating TV-03 thermovision set to prove in principle the possibility of mediated thermovision of intracranial processes through intact coverings of the head. On the basis of the examination of 71 patients with craniocerebral trauma the thermovision characteristics of brain compression are described for the first time. The author distinguish thermovision signs of acute, subacute and chronic intracranial hematoma, brain contusion of convexital, parabasal and basal localization, which contribute to their topical and differential diagnosis.

[Application of high-speed thermovisor TV-03 to rapid diagnosis of focal pathology of the nervous system]. / Primenenie bystrodeistvuiushchego teplovizora TV-03 dlia ékspress-diagnostiki ochagovoi patologii nervnoi sistemy.

The equipment for, and methods of thermovisional examinations developed by the authors and used in 300 patients with focal pathologies of the central and peripheral nervous system are described. In patients with intracranial processes, local changes of the skin temperature on the head usually correlating with the loci of the brain pathology are revealed. The correlation between the asymmetry of the thermal fields and the tumour localization in relation to the brain surface was found to be regular. Peculiarities of the thermographic picture are described with reference to the histobiological characteristics of the tumours. In meningiomas, the zone of the increased luminosity was rounded, homogenous and distinctly outlined; in gliomas reaching the brain surface, this zone is diffuse and less intense. Thermovisional characteristics of traumatic meningeal hematomas with regard to the time of their formation are presented. Acute hematomas were characterized by a lowered skin temperature above them, chronic ones by a brighter luminosity in the zone of their localization. For the first time the thermovisional syndrome of the traumatic foci of brain contusion and smashing is described. Thermovisional appearance of spinal cord tumours, intervertebral disc hernias, injures of peripheral nerves, etc. is also presented.

[Diagnostic possibilities and prospects for the use of thermovision in neurosurgical clinical practice]. / Diagnosticheskie vozmozhnosti i perspektivy primeneniia teplovideniia v neirokhirurgicheskoi klinike.

On the basis of examination of 130 patients, the authors describe for the first time the thermovision syndromes of cerebral tumors, intracranial hematomas, posttraumatic cranial defects, tumors of the spinal cord, Schmorl' body, injuries to the peripheral nerves, and some other neurosurgical pathologic conditions. The mechanisms of the origin of thermoasymmetry are discussed. The diagnostic possibilities and the prospects of thermovision in neurosurgery are disclosed.