Contrast-enhanced ultrasound-guided sentinel lymph node biopsy in early-stage breast cancer: a prospective cohort study

Table 2 Details of node positive patients

CASE No	Age (years)	Grade	Surgical management	Maximal diameter (mm)	Number of CE-SLN	CEUS operation times	Number of dyed SLN	Intraoperative pathology of CE-SLN (positive number/total number)	Size of CE-SLN metastasis (macro/micro)	Pathological status of other ALNs or SLNs
Case4^a	85	II	Mastectomy	20	1	1	3	0/1	Micro	0/5
Case10	64	II	Mastectomy	15	2	2	2	1/2	Macro	0/16
Case19	42	III	Mastectomy	20	2	2	2	1/2	Macro	0/16
Case29	48	III	BCS	25	1	2	2	1/1	Macro	1/18
Case36	51	II	BCS	15	1	1	3	1/1	Macro	0/7
Case39	64	II	Mastectomy	20	1	1	1	1/1	Macro	0/17
Case42	59	III	Mastectomy	20	2	1	2	1/2	Macro	0/13
Case45	48	II	BCS	30	1	1	1	1/1	Macro	0/12
Case59	73	II	Mastectomy	19	1	1	3	1/1	Micro	0/5
Case64	63	II	Mastectomy	17	2	2	3	1/2	Macro	0/19
Case72	46	II	Mastectomy	15	1	2	2	1/1	Macro	0/15
Case73	42	III	Mastectomy	20	1	2	2	1/1	Macro	0/13
Case76^b	27	III	BCS	20	1	2	3	1/1	Macro	2/17
Case80	50	II	BCS	15	1	1	2	1/1	Macro	0/13
Case88	48	II	BCS	22	1	1	1	1/1	Macro	0/15
Case92	63	II	Mastectomy	20	1	1	2	1/1	Macro	0/20
Case97	57	III	Mastectomy	23	2	1	2	1/2	Macro	0/12
Case104	60	II	Mastectomy	25	1	2	1	1/1	Macro	0/18
Case105	45	III	Mastectomy	18	1	2	2	1/1	Macro	0/19

BCS Breast-conserving surgery
^aThe intraoperative frozen section was negative, and CE-SLN micrometastasis was found in the paraffin pathology
^bIn this patient, the two positive non-CE-SLNs were dyed, and one of them was micrometastasis

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