High-resolution infrared thermography: a new tool to assess tungiasis-associated inflammation of the skin

Schuster, Angela; Thielecke, Marlene; Raharimanga, Vaomalala; Ramarokoto, Charles Emile; Rogier, Christophe; Krantz, Ingela; Feldmeier, Hermann

doi:10.1186/s41182-017-0062-9

Tropical Medicine and Health

Table 3 Demographic, clinical and thermographic characterization of the patients (N = 36); patients described in detail are marked in italics

From: High-resolution infrared thermography: a new tool to assess tungiasis-associated inflammation of the skin

Initial patient	Sex	Age	Foot	Number of viable/nonviable/manipulated lesions	Stage of lesions	Topographic localization of lesions^a,b	Signs of acute inflammation (mSSAT) in the index area^c	Signs of chronic inflammation (mSSCT) of the index area^d	Pain (0–4)	Temperature of the foot at day 0 (°C)^e	Perilesional temperature at day 0 (°C) of the index area^e	Perilesional temperature at day 4 (°C) of the index area^e
BMR	F	14	L	1/0/0	1	10	0.5	0.5	2	29.34	31.62	–
			R	1/0/0	1	2	0.5	0.5	2	30.40	31.41	–
RMR	M	24	R	0/0/1	0	1	4.0	4.0.	2	27.46	28.38	–
OR	M	16	L	1/0/0	3b	1	3.0	3.0	1	25.36	29.19	–
AMR	F	17	R	1/0/0	3a	8	3.0	1.0	3	29.71	31.77	–
BLS	M	13	R	1/0/0	3b	2	2.0	3.0	2	21.42	22.31	–
CER	M	6	L	0/0/3	0	8/8/9	3.0	2.0	4	21.35	24.59	–
MMR	F	20	L	1/0/0	3a	10	2.5	0.0	3	24.01	24.34	–
RJR	M	15	L	1/0/0	2	11	1.0	1.0	0	22.47	24.83	–
DSS	M	10	L	2/0/0	2,3a	7/8	2.0	1.0	2	26.23	27.26	–
SR	F	13	R	1/0/0	3a	8	4.0	2.0.	3	26.52	29.58	–
RDS	M	27	L	1/0/0	2	5	6.0	5.0	3	27.98	29.27	–
			R	1/0/0	3a	2	2.0	5.0	3	28.42	32.98	–
ENR	M	18	L	1/0/0	3a	6	0.0	2.0	0	27.09	27.79	–
AGR	F	12	L	0/1/0	4a	1	1.5	1.0	0	27.06	29.19	–
ELR	F	8	R	1/1/0	2/4a	9/10	0.0	1.0	0	22.98	23.96	–
CMR	F	19	R	0/0/2	0	1/6	0.0	4.0	0	27.49	29.33	–
TAR	F	21	L	1/0/0	3a	2	0.0	5.0	0	27.67	28.77	–
			R	2/0/0	2	3	0.0	3.0	0	27.43	29.46	–
BDR	F	23	L	0/2/0	4b	1	0.0	5.0	0	26.82	27.87	–
MGR	F	5	L	2/0/0	1,3a	4	0.0	0.0	0	22.33	22.26	–
TMR	F	17	L	1/0/0	2	11	2.0	0.0	3	21.66	21.84	–
DRJ	F	16	L	2/0/0	3a,3b	3/11	1.0	0.0	0	27.18	27.29	–
MNR	M	15	L	1/0/0	2	10	0.0	0.0	0	28.18	28.52	–
JNR	F	20	L	1/0/0	3a	11	0.0	0.0	0	23.33	24.05	–
RNR	M	55	L/R	-		Whole foot	7.0	6.0	4	-	-	–
BDR	M	16	L	1/0/0	2	8	0.0	0.0	0	27.66	28.77	–
AAR	F	11	L	1/0/0	3a	9	0.0	0.0	0	25.70	28.30	–
			R	1/00	3a	10	0.0	0.0	0	24.78	26.44	–
NMS	M	23	L	2/0/0	2	1	2.0	4.02.5	2	27.79	30.52	–
			R	3/0/0	3a	5	6.0	4.0	3	27.41	30.45	–
JMR	M	10	L	4/0/1	2,3a	3/4/8/ 5	4.0	5.0	2	32.57	33.42
YAR	F	12	L	4/0/0	3b,2	1 /2	3.0	3.0	1	30.29	31.03	17.10
MRR	F	13	L	6/1/0	2,3a,3b/4b	6/7 /11	4.0	2.0.	4	25.90	28.10	24.30
ASB	F	7	L	1/0/0	3b	6	4.0	1.0	2	28.26	30.67	20.91
ELR	F	5	R	2/0/0	3a,3b	10/11	4.0	1.0	1	25.82	28.03	20.96
EBR	M	6	R	6/0/0	2,3a,3b	6/7/12	4.0	2.0	1	27.93	30.87	28.42
AMR	F	12	L	1/0/0	1	3	0.0	0.0	0	28.34	29.06	23.34
JNR	M	7	L	1/0/0	1	3	2.0	1.0	0	29.41	30.00	18.10
EMR	F	16	L	1/0/0	2	10	2.0	1.0	0	26.65	28.45	23.50
DR	F	12	L	1/0/0	1	10	1.0	1.0	0	25.25	27.55	20.70

^aIf more than one area was affected, an index area was selected for thermographic evaluation (index area underlined)
^b(1) toe nail rim = 1, (2) toe nail rim = 2, (3) toe nail rim = 3, (4) toe nail rim = 4, (5) toe nail rim = 5, (1) toe sole = 6, (2) toe sole = 7, (3) toe sole = 8, (4) toe sole = 9, (5) toe sole = 10, foot sole = 11, heel = 12, medial foot rim = 13, lateral foot rim = 15
^cTaking into consideration the index lesion (presence of oedema, erythema or warmness = 1 point, ulcer = 1 point, fissure = 1 point, pustule/abscess = 1 point, suppuration = 1 point, pruritus = 0.5 point, pain = 0.5 point, severe pruritus (≥3 VAS) = 1 point, severe pain (≥3 VAS) = 1 point)
^dTaking into consideration the index lesion (hyperkeratosis = 1 point, chronic oedema = 1 point, hypertrophic nail rim = 1 point, deformed toe nail = 1 point, loss of nail = 1 point, scar/deformed toe = 1 point)
^eSee the ‘Methods’ section

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