01731nas a2200373   4500000000100000008004100001260001300042653001500055653001000070653000900080653001000089653002100099653002900120653002100149653001100170653002000181653001100201653001100212653001200223653000900235653001600244653003300260653002100293653001700314100001700331700001300348245010800361856005900469300001100528490000700539050003200546520076500578022001401343       1989                            d  c1989 Dec10aAdolescent10aAdult10aAged10aChild10aChild, Preschool10aClinical Trials as Topic10aEquipment Design10aFemale10aHot Temperature10aHumans10aInfant10aleprosy10aMale10aMiddle Aged10aMulticenter Studies as Topic10aPain Measurement10aThermography1 aSrinivasan H1 aStumpe B00aValue of thermal sensibility testing in leprosy diagnosis in the field--field trial of a pocket device.  uhttp://leprev.ilsl.br/pdfs/1989/v60n4/pdf/v60n4a11.pdf  a317-260 v60  aInfolep Library - available3 a<p>A handy thermal sensibility testing device has been developed and field tested in different centres in Africa and India. The device performed satisfactorily under field conditions and made testing for thermal sensibility in the field practicable and easy. Examination of the results of testing 260 persons, most of them having a few lesions of early leprosy, showed that the expected increase in the rate of diagnosis of sensory impairment in the skin lesions, and so in the diagnosis of leprosy, would be about 15-25% when thermal sensibility testing using this device was added to the other sensibility tests routinely used in the field. Regular use of this device in the field will help to bring more leprosy patients under treatment than at present.</p>  a0305-7518