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. 2021 Feb 26;36(2):1152–1163. doi: 10.1007/s00464-021-08382-5

Table 3.

Harvested and metastatic lymph nodes in the FLNM-fail (n = 56) and FLNM-success group (n = 136)

FLNM-f Harvested LNs Metastatic LNs
(n = 56) n Mean (range) LN n (%) Mean (range) LN (%)
Pericolic LNs 56 18.1 (1–67) 1015 14 (25.0) 4.1 (1–21) 57 (5.6)
D3 LNs 56 4.7 (0–27) 264 2 (3.6) 1 (1) 2 (0.8)
Total LNs 56 22.8 (2–72) 1279 14 (25) 4.2 (1–22) 59 (4.6)
FLNM-s Harvested LNs Metastatic LNs
(n = 136) n mean (range) LN n (%) mean (range) LN (%)
Pericolic LNs 136 25.3 (5–218) 3442 33 (24.3) 2.64 (1–10) 87 (2.6)
D3 Fluorescence LNs 136 7.7 (0–36) 1050 4 (2.9) 2.5 (1–3) 10 (1.0)
D4 Fluorescence LNs 11 3.4 (1–14) 37 1 (9.1) 5 (5) 5 (13.5)
Total LNs 136 33.3 (7–231) 4529 33 (24.3) 4.2 (1–14) 102 (2.3)

FLNM fluorescence lymph node mapping, LN lymph node