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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2009 Mar 15;115(6):1194–1202. doi: 10.1002/cncr.24154

Table 6.

Post-Neoadjuvant Treatment Lymph Node Status by Physical Examination, PET, and Pathology Finding

# Patients by the Modality (+) LN by Pathology (#pts) (−) LN by Pathology (#pts)
(+) LN by PE 4 3 1
(+) LN by PET 6 4 2
(+) LN by either PE or PET 10 7 3
(+) LN by both PE and PET 0 0 0
(−) LN by PE 41 24 17
(−) LN by PET 35 21 14
(−) LN by both PE and PET 32 19 13
(+) LN by PE, (−) by PET 3 2 1
(+) LN by PET, (−) by PE 5 4 1

Note: LN = lymph node; PE = physical examination