Sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer patients using fluorescence navigation with indocyanine green

Table 5 Unfavorable events and deaths

	SLNB Group (n = 263)	SLNB- > ALND Group (n = 49)
Unfavorable events	0	0
Events other than death	0	0
Axillary metastasis	0	0
Supraclavicular metastasis	1 (0.3%)	0
Recurrence in ipsilateral breast	18 (0.3%)	0
Cancer in contralateral breast	0	0
Distant metastasis	5 (2%)	4 (8%)
Other primary tumor	0	0
Death due to breast cancer	3 (1%)	2 (4%)
Death from other causes	0	0

ALND: Axillary lymph node dissection
SLNB: Sentinel lymph node biopsy
SLNB- > ALND: Because of being positive for lymph node metastasis in sentinel lymph node biopsy, a total dissection of the axillary lymph nodes was applied.
Statistical significance was evaluated using the chi-square test or Fisher's exact probability test. There were no significant differences between the two groups. (P = 0.55)

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