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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Surg. 2008 Dec;196(6):827–833. doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2008.07.034

Table 2.

Results of Frozen Section analysis of SLN Biopsy

Total # of Patients 133
Total # of Sentinel Nodes 271
Overall % positive SLN 8%
Positive SLN via frozen 10
Positive SLN via permanent 11
# False negative nodes 1
% False negative SLN (all patients, N = 133) 0.8%
% False negative SLN (all nodes, N = 271) 0.4%
Sensitivity of Sentinel Node Frozen Section: 91%
Specificity of Sentinel Node Frozen Section: 100%
PPV for Sentinel Node Frozen Section: 100%
NPV for Sentinel Node Frozen Section: 99.6%