Role and Place of PET/CT in the Assessment of Skin Melanoma Prevalence

Skin melanoma is potentially the most dangerous form among all tumor skin lesions. According to statistics, accounts for about 90% of deaths. The cause high mortality patients early metastasis. At same time, metastases can be localized in almost organs and tissues. In addition local regional metastasis skin, subcutaneous tissue lymph nodes, metastatic distant not uncommon, this dramatically worsens prognosis disease. High-quality instrumental diagnostics at various stages patient management (from primary diagnosis treatment control) allow reduce increase overall survival patients. Positron emission tomography combination with computed (PET/CT) has been used last decade as a dominant imaging method initial staging, control detection progression or recurrence types cancer, including melanoma. It great practical importance predicting outcomes, assessing risk disease progression, well effectiveness radiation systemic therapy. PET/CT that allows simultaneously evaluate condition tissues minimal load being more sensitive specific comparison ultrasound, CT magnetic resonance imaging. <sup>18</sup>F-fluorodeoxyglucose effective asymptomatic recurrence. accurate setting process stage, crucial ensure adequate treatment, which turn will life expectancy category near future.