[Ultrasound monitoring of the course of uveal melanoma].

Fifty-two persons were examined to define a role of a current ultrasound study during monitoring the natural history of uveal melanoma. The B-mode ultrasonography, color Doppler imaging and power Doppler and Doppler spectral study were applied. Ultrasound densitometry was used to estimate 326 sonograms imaging melanoma. Control studies assessed the time course of metric, hemodynamic, vascular, and densitometric changes of the tumor during organ-saving treatment. A number of ultrasound criteria for the positive and negative course of the disease were defined. Emphasis is focused on the sign that turned out to be most resistant to medical measures. The author shows it necessary to comprehensively use all currently available ultrasound diagnostic techniques for effective monitoring the state of uveal melanoma.