Table 3.

Correlation coefficients among clinical and pathologic factors with axillary lymph node metastases.

	Correlations
	ALNM	Tumor size	PR	HER2	LVI
Tumor size	0.281*	1
Progesterone receptor	0.081*	−0.017	1
HER2	0.085*	0.102*	−0.080*	1
LVI	0.503*	0.262*	0.003	0.036	1
Grade	0.113*	0.168*	−0.148*	0.178*	0.069**

Data were analyzed with Pearson correlation analysis.

^*Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two-tailed);

^**Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (two-tailed).