NCAM1 and melanoma: The purpose of this work was to evaluate the possibility of detecting melanoma DTCs in BM based on the expression of HMB-45 using flow cytometry, to determine the frequency of BM involvement in patients with melanoma, to analyze DTC subset composition in melanoma as to the expression of CD56 and CD57 that were an additional criterion for melanoma immunological diagnosis, and to assess the proportion of tumor stem cells among DTCs based on the presence of CD133.