METHOD FOR SETTING EARLY-STAGE DIAGNOSIS OF MAMMARY GLAND TUMOR DISEASES Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: medicine. SUBSTANCE: method involves multiple thermographic examination with glucose loading, building the boundaries of informativity zones coincident with natural boundaries of the mammary glands, determining asymmetry degree and relative intensification of the vascular pattern, dividing each zone into four areas, each area being divided into four sites with following calculation of values of additional diagnostic temperature parameters and the manner of change in value of the probabilistic integral criteria of diagnostic significance resulting in the case being referred to as belonging to one of the following diagnostic classes: norm, mastopathy or cancer suspicion. EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness in preventive examination of population; early stage diagnosis of mammary gland tumors.