Wortsman Ximena
Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Lo Fontecilla 201 of 734 Las Condes, Santiago 8330111, Chile.
Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago 8331150, Chile.
Cancers (Basel). 2024 Sep 27;16(19):3301. doi: 10.3390/cancers16193301.
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in human beings. Ultrasound is a powerful and non-invasive imaging technique that has expanded its use in dermatology, including in the skin cancer field. The full range of critical anatomical information provided by ultrasound cannot be deduced from a naked eye examination, palpation, or other imaging techniques such as dermoscopy, confocal microscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, or PET-CT (Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography).
This review practically analyzes the main ultrasonographic features of the most common types of skin cancers and the performance of the locoregional staging according to the literature, which is illustrated by state-of-the-art clinical and ultrasonographic correlations.
The most common types of skin cancer show recognizable ultrasonographic patterns.
Among the current radiological imaging techniques, ultrasound has the highest axial spatial resolution. Compared to other imaging techniques used in dermatology, it shows the great advantage of penetrating the soft tissues thoroughly, which allows us to detect and identify the most common skin types of skin cancer, including both the primary tumor and its locoregional metastases.
皮肤癌是人类最常见的癌症。超声是一种强大的非侵入性成像技术，其在皮肤病学领域的应用不断拓展，包括皮肤癌领域。超声所提供的全面关键解剖学信息无法通过肉眼检查、触诊或其他成像技术（如皮肤镜检查、共聚焦显微镜检查、磁共振成像或正电子发射断层扫描-计算机断层扫描）推断得出。
本综述根据文献实际分析了最常见类型皮肤癌的主要超声特征以及局部区域分期的表现，并通过最新的临床与超声相关性进行说明。
最常见类型的皮肤癌呈现出可识别的超声图像特征。
在当前的放射成像技术中，超声具有最高的轴向空间分辨率。与皮肤病学中使用的其他成像技术相比，它具有能彻底穿透软组织的巨大优势，这使我们能够检测和识别最常见类型的皮肤癌，包括原发性肿瘤及其局部区域转移灶。
