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Table 4 The nature of the classification of metastatic disease amongst false negative cases for patients with a positive sentinel lymph node for invasive lobular carcinomas and invasive ductal carcinomas

From: Comparison of intraoperative frozen section analysis for sentinel lymph node biopsy during breast cancer surgery for invasive lobular carcinoma and invasive ductal carcinoma

False negative cases

ILC

IDC

Total cases

P-value

   Macrometastatic (>2.0 mm)

5 (28%)

2 (18%)

7 (24%)

0.807

   Micrometastatic (≤ 2.0 mm)

11 (61%)

8 (73%)

19 (66%)

 

   Unknown classification

2 (11%)

1 (9%)

3 (10%)

 

   Total

18 (100%)

11 (100%)

29 (100%)

 
  1. ILC, invasive lobular carcinoma; IDC, invasive ductal carcinoma