Comparative Assessment of Lymph Node Micrometastasis in Cervical, Endometrial and Vulvar Cancer: Insights on the Real Time qRT-PCR Approach versus Immunohistochemistry, Employing Dual Molecular Markers

Table 2

Micrometastasis detection in 82 lymph nodes from the 46 patients employing both immunohistochemistry and real time quantitative RT-PCR (qRT-PCR) for CK19 and CA9.

Expression by immunohistochemistry	CK19 expression; by qRT-PCR		CA9 expression; by qRT-PCR
	(+)	(−)	(+)	(−)
CK19
(+) 11	11	0
(−) 71	2	69
CA9
(+) 6			6	0
(−) 76			1	75