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Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg Oncol. 2010 Sep 19;17(0 3):280–285. doi: 10.1245/s10434-010-1235-5

TABLE 5.

Characteristics of blue only SLN-positive cases

ID	No. of SLN (order of retrieval/total no.)	Sentinel node burden (ITC, micro, macro)	LSG		Tc injection location	Blue dye injection location	Sentinel node count (ex vivo)
ID	No. of SLN (order of retrieval/total no.)	Sentinel node burden (ITC, micro, macro)	Axillary drain	Time to drainage	Tc injection location	Blue dye injection location	Blue node	Additional node counts	Primary tumor count
1	1/1	Touch preparation only^a	Yes	4 h, moderate signal	Unknown	Peritumoral	0	NA	2,791
2	1/1	Macro	No	NA	Peritumoral	Peritumoral	0	NA	Unknown
3	1/2	Macro	Yes	5 h, faint	Peritumoral	Peritumoral	0	0/0	1,481
4	3/5	ITC^b	No	NA	Peritumoral	Peritumoral	9	3, 0, 5, 5	2,400

NA not applicable

Involvement on touch preparation only, not on H&E or IHC

Cluster of two malignant cells detected only by cytokeratin IHC