Table 1.

Incidence of micrometastatic lymph-nodes among positive sentinel lymph nodes

Ref.	Population	n	ITCs (%)	MMs (%)	ITCs + MMs	Macrometastases
Houvenaeghel et al[5]	cT0-2N0	2413	13	33	46	54
Yi et al[8]	Positive SLNB	26986	-	25	-	75
Madsen et al[9]	cT1-2N0	517	10	24	34	66

SEER: Surveillance, epidemiology and end results; SLNB: Sentinel lymph node biopsy; ITC: Isolated tumor cells; MMs: Micrometastases.