[Thermographic examination of patients with neurologic manifestations of lumbar osteochondrosis].

The article deals with thermography data collected for 94 patients with different clinical signs of lumbar osteochondrosis (reflex, radicular, vascular, radiculo-spinal). The features of thermograms were described as depending on the leading clinical syndrome of the disease. A lack of direct correlation between the severity of the pain syndrome and thermoasymmetry was registered. The data suggest wider use of the diagnostic capacities of IR-imaging techniques in patients with vertebrogenic pathology.