An apparatus for monitoring a condition of a tissue which consists of a substrate disposed above the tissue and which is formed from a material that changes a state with a change in the condition of the tissue. The apparatus further encompasses at least one inductor structure above the substrate where at least one of an electrical property and a physical property of the inductor structure changes with a change in the condition of the substrate measure of the electrical or the physical property of the inductor structure provides an indication of the condition of the tissue.