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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 5.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2011 Jan 11;117(12):2599–2607. doi: 10.1002/cncr.25822

Table 4.

Results of Discordant Case Analysis

Discordant Samples (n = 71) SLN Count
Resolveda 28
 Tissue allocation bias 19
 Site sample mix-up 6
 Change in pathology result 3
Unresolved 43

SLN indicates sentinel lymph node.

a

For the 1044 comparisons between reference pathology and the One Step Nucleic Acid Amplification Breast Cancer System, there were 71 discordant results. Follow-up pathologic and molecular investigations allowed for grouping of discordant samples into the 3 categories shown.