Cytokeratin on Frozen Sections of Sentinel Node May Spare Breast Cancer Patients Secondary Axillary Surgery

Table 2

Comparison of evaluations on frozen sections and paraffin section of 336 patients with sentinel node biopsies without IHC on frozen sections (group 2).

Final evaluation on paraffin sections	Evaluation on frozen sections
	No metastasis	Metastasis	Total
No metastasis	220 (100%)	0 (0%)	220
ITC	11 (92%)	1 (8%)	12
MIC	29 (83%)	6 (17%)	35
MAC	6 (9%)	63 (91%)	69
Total	266 (79%)	70 (21%)	336