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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 31.
Published in final edited form as: Pathol Oncol Res. 2011 Apr 15;17(4):835–841. doi: 10.1007/s12253-011-9390-y

Table 1.

Patients, lymph nodes, and slices based on lymph-node category

Node Category Number of Patients Number of Lymph Nodes Number of Slices
No-metastases 61 (67.8%) 257 (82.6%) 5,967 (75.1%)
Metastases 29 (32.2%) 54 (17.4%) 1,976 (24.9%)
≥ 50%-metastases 17 (18.9%) 39 (12.5%) 1,616 (20.3%)
< 50%-metastases 3 (3.3%) 3 (1.0%) 78 (1.0%)
Micrometastases 9 (10.0%) 12 (3.9%) 282 (3.6%)
ITC 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%) 0 (0.0%)
Total 90 311 7943
Average Per Patient 3.5 25.5
Standard Deviation 1.3 11.1