title: [Ultrasound applied to the management of malignant melanoma].
abstract: In the last few decades, the role of cutaneous ultrasound has increased in dermatology. This technique currently has multiple applications, both in inflammatory and tumoural disease. Indeed, melanoma is one of the tumours benefitting most from technological advances in ultrasound, both for initial diagnosis and for follow-up. Today, cutaneous ultrasound is a noninvasive diagnostic technique, whose main applications in melanoma are to determine tumoural thickness and analyse intratumoural vascularisation. This allows prognostic factors to be determined in real time and contributes to the diagnosis of subcutaneous and nodal metastases during initial staging and follow-up with a view to reducing morbidity and mortality.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital Costa del Sol, Marbella, Málaga, España. Electronic address: inesbier@gmail.com.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Fernández Canedo
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, España.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moreno Ramírez
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Radiodiagnóstico, Hospital Costa del Sol, Marbella, Málaga, España.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Valdés Solís
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital Costa del Sol, Marbella, Málaga, España.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de Troya Martín
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008545:Melanoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D011379:Prognosis; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D014463:Ultrasonography
keywords: Ecografía; Ganglios metastásicos; Melanoma; Metastatic nodes; Metástasis subcutáneas; Subcutaneous metastases; Ultrasound