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. 2012 Dec;19(6):315–323. doi: 10.3747/co.19.1173

TABLE II.

Concordance between her2 status of core-needle biopsy (cnb) and corresponding surgical (ex) samples in recent studies

Reference
Arnedos et al.,200926 Tamaki et al., 201028 D’Alfonso et al., 201029 Apple et al., 200930 Apple et al., 200930 Park et al., 200931 Lebeau et al., 201032 Lee et al., 201233
Samples tested (n) 327 353 100 (patients) 260 260 104 (patients) 500 300
Testing method ihc ihc fish fish ihc ihc ihc ihc/fish
Overall concordance (%) 98.8 89.3 87 92 98 86.5 90.4 98
Concordant her2− [n (%)] 283 (86.5) 182 (96.8) 12 (85.7)a
58 (90.6)b
102 (82) 83 (66) 411 (97.4) 261 (100)
Concordant her2+ [n (%)] 40 (12.2) 12 (75.0) 100 13 (10) 6 (5) 27 (81.8) 33 (97.0)
Overall discordance (%) 10.66 13 8 2 2
Discordant (cnb+/ex−) [n (%)] 1 0 2 (2) 6 (5) 0 (0) 2 5 (15.2) 0 (0)
Discordant (cnb−/ex+) [n (%)] 3 0 2 (2) 4 (3) 3 (2) 1 0 (0) 6 (2)
Indeterminate [n (%)] 4 (1.2) 0 (0) 33 (26)
a

Scored as ihc 0.

b

Scored as ihc 1+.

ihc = immunohistochemistry; fish = fluorescence in situ hybridization.