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© 1980 British Society for Rheumatology

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MEASUREMENT OF TEMPERATURE IN THE ARTHRITIC HAND

H. A. BIRD, M. CALGUNERI, P. A. LEATHAM and V. WRIGHT

Clinical Pharmacology, Unit Royal Bath Hospital Harrogate and the The Rheumatism Research Unit University Department of Medicine General Infirmary at Leeds

Correspondence to: Requests for reprints to Dr. H. A. Bird, Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Royal Bath Hospital, Harrogate.

Two simple and relatively inexpensive thermographic techniques have been studied as possible methods for quantifying change in inflammation, either spontaneous or drug induced, in the rheumatoid hand. Crystal thermography plates were found to be of no value. An infra-red medical thermometer provided reproducible results, providing full precautions were observed. The fall in temperature produced at individual joints by local steroid injection, whilst consistent, fell within the observed temperature variation of the untreated rheumatoid hand.


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