Frozen section is superior to imprint cytology for the intra-operative assessment of sentinel lymph node metastasis in Stage I Breast cancer patients

Table 1 Comparison between intraoperative imprint cytology and final histological diagnosis

	Node-positive cases at final diagnosis	Node-negative cases at final diagnosis
	Node-positive cases at final diagnosis	Node-negative cases at final diagnosis
Positive introperative imprint cytology	8	2	10
Negative introperative imprint cytology	9	119	128
	17	121
	Sensitivity	47.1%
	Specificity	98.3%
	Positive Predictive Value	80.0%
	Negative Predictive Value	93.0%

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