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Table 2 Patient distribution according to stages

From: A prospective comparative study to assess the contribution of radioisotope tracer method to dye-only method in the detection of sentinel lymph node in breast cancer

Data

Blue dye

Combination method

 

n

%

n

%

Number of patients recruited to the study

42

100

42

100

Number of patients with SLN detected

41

97.6

41

97.6

Number of patients with positive SLN

19

45.2

19

45.2

Number of patients with negative SLN

22

53.7

22

53.7

Number of patients with stained-hot lymph nodes that were missed during the blue dye stage (%)

3 (7.1)

Number of patients with different frozen section results with the blue dye and combination methods

0 (0)