Table 3. Detection of non-sentinel lymph-node metastasis in the permanent histology and one-step nucleic acid amplification (OSNA) assay cohorts.
|
Histology
|
OSNA
|
|||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | 95% CI | No. | % | 95% CI | P-value | ||
| Positive | 13 | 20.3 | 11.7–32.6% | Positive | 66 | 55.5 | 46.1–64.5% | <0.001 |
| Macrometastasis | 12 | 18.8 | 10.5–30.8% | (++) or (+I) | 30 | 25.2 | 17.9–34.2% | 0.42 |
| Micrometastasis | 1 | 1.6 | 0.1–9.5% | (+) | 36 | 30.3 | 22.3–39.5% | <0.001 |
| Negative | 51 | 79.7 | Negative | 53 | 44.5 | |||
Abbreviations: CI=confidence interval; (+I)=positive with reaction inhibited.