High-Resolution Ultrasound Combined with Power Doppler Sonography Can Reduce the Number of Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsies in Cutaneous Melanoma

Abstract

Although high-resolution ultrasound combined with PDS cannot substitute SLNB, this technique offers earlier diagnosis of lymph node involvement in a small subgroup of patients (with subcapsular location of metastases), and introduces the possibility to exclude those patients from SLN procedure and directly prepare them for complete lymph node dissection (CLND).