[Application of plate thermography in the diagnosis of scrotal diseases (author's transl)].

Plate thermography for the diagnostic differentiation of scrotal diseases is an easy, quick method for the doctor without any great expenditure for apparatus; for the patient it is painless and without danger. After application in 58 patients with various changes in the scrotal contents the characteristic findings of acute epididymitis, varicocele and scrotal tumor were obtained. As an additional investigational procedure, plate thermography permits improvement of preoperative diagnosis of scrotal tumors and epididymitis, control of postoperative treatment of varicocele, early recognition of torsion of the testis and confirmation of discrete varicoceles.