Medical infrared thermal imaging of canine appendicular bone neoplasia

BMC Veterinary Research

Table 3 Number of thermographic ROI from 40 dogs affected with bone neoplasia and their normal contralateral limb

Aspect of the limb	Limb	Cranial	Lateral	Medial ^a	Caudal	Total
Proximal (shoulder/hip)	Cancer	3 ^a	20	2 ^a	3 ^a	28
Proximal (shoulder/hip)	Contralateral	2 ^a	20	2 ^a	1 ^a	25
Middle (elbow/stifle)	Cancer	20	29	5 ^a	17	71
Middle (elbow/stifle)	Contralateral	21	31	4 ^a	17	73
Distal (carpus/tarsus)	Cancer	12	15	3 ^a	7	37
Distal (carpus/tarsus)	Contralateral	11	14	3 ^a	8	36
Full limb	Cancer	5	16	2 ^a	2	25
Full limb	Contralateral	5	17	2 ^a	2	26
Total	Cancer	40	80 ^b	12 ^a	29	161
Total	Contralateral	39	82 ^b	11 ^a	28	160

^a Due to small data sets, these values were not included in the analysis
^b Certain neoplastic lesions intersected multiple region of interests (e.g. proximal and middle limb thermographic images were taken for the same mid-diaphyseal humeral neoplasm)

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