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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 13.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2010 Jun 15;116(12):2878–2883. doi: 10.1002/cncr.25066

Table 2.

Histologic Findings Suggestive of Treatment Effect in True-Negative and False-Negative SLNs

Treatment Effect True-Negative SLNs False-Negative SLNs
Fibrosis (≤5%) 5 1
Fibrosis (≤5%) & calcification 1 0
Fibrosis (>5% but <50%) 3 0
Fibrosis (>5 but <50%) & fat necrosis 1 0
Fibrosis (≥50%) 3 1
Parenchymal histiocytes 2 0
None 8 9
Total 23 11

SLN indicates sentinel lymph node.