Authors
Epishkina A. A.
Postgraduate, Chair for Pathological Anatomy1
Zaletina A. V.
Student, Faculty of Pediatrics1
Chilipenok A. S.
Student, Faculty of Pediatrics1
Martusevich A. K.
Doctor of Biology, Head, Laboratory for Medical Biophysics1
1 - Privolzhsky Research Medical University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Corresponding Author
Martusevich Andrew; e-mail: cryst-mart@yandex.ru
Conflict of interest
None declared.
Funding
The study had no sponsorship.
Abstract
Currently, the prevalence and detection of melanoma, as well as other forms of cancer, tends to increase. Due to the intensity of the disease, malignant skin tumors have an unfavorable treatment prognosis and cause an increasing number of deaths. This necessitates the development and implementation of new diagnostic methods. In this regard, the purpose of this review is to systematize ideas about the instrumental diagnosis of melanoma. Currently, there are quite a few methods of melanoma verification, but most of them are morphological and/or based on the use of expensive unique equipment. This minimizes the prospects of their use as a screening technology. The solution of this problem may be a new diagnostic method based on near-field resonance microwave sensing of the skin, which demonstrated high diagnostic informativity, together with the speed of the study and the mobility of the complex.
Key words
melanoma, diagnostics, instrumental examination, near-field resonance microwave sensing
DOI
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