Thermography is useless for diagnosis of cutaneous malignant melanomas (CMM). In fact, false negative thermograms (29.9 %) are much more numerous than clinically suspicious cases. Thermography is useless for follow-up of CMM. False-negative and false-positive thermograms of metastatic lymph nodes, subcutaneous nodules and removal site of CMM are much too numerous.
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