[Follow-up of melanoma lesions]

Due to the early diagnosis, melanomas can be diagnosed in early stages. Most melanomas tend not to show morphological criteria of malignancy in the very early stages. They rather resemble benign moles. For patients with hundreds of atypical lesions, follow-up examinations using digital dermoscopy are very helpful. This technique enables the physician to monitor lesions and to detect microscopic change. Lesions with microscopic change are thought to be high risk lesions and should be removed this will represent important savings for the health system because this will allow to make the diagnosis of melanoma in earlier stages and to save costs for unnecessary surgery. In this article we are going to review the technique.