Thermography Improves Clinical Assessment in Patients with Systemic Sclerosis Treated with Ozone Therapy

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Thermographic pictures with corresponding histogram of color scale. (a) A healthy hand: the noticeably lighter places in the area of distal finger parts and the area of the ball point to higher skin temperature in those places. (b) A hand of a person suffering from systemic sclerosis before ozone therapy: significant lowering of the temperature of phalanx distal parts (especially of the 4th finger) is visible. (c) A hand of a person suffering from scleroderma after ozonotherapy treatments: the increase in the temperature in the entire examined area manifesting itself as lighter colors on the thermogram is visible.

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