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Camillo Di Cicco, MD,PhD

Diagnosis

melanoma

Body Site

leg

Age

30 years

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Color

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Thermography allows the investigator to create a 3 dimensional image based on infrared emissions from tissue. Warmer tissues show up as yellow and white, whereas darker colors represent cooler structures. Malignant tumors are metabolically active and appear yellow and white on the images.

Description

metastatic melanoma in left leg

Categories

neoplasm, malignant demonstration

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2/26/2002 5:41:43

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PubMed Medline Plus Medscape

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