Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Breast Cancer Patients by Means of Indocyanine Green Using the Karl Storz VITOM® Fluorescence Camera

Table 1

SLN mapping results.

		%
Patients	99	100,0
Nodes detected per patient (mean, range)	2.2	1–7
Zero	0	0,0
One	39	39,4
Two	29	29,3
Three	18	18,2
More than three	13	13,3
Nodes detected	220	100.0
Both tracers	167	75,9
By Tc	172	78,2
By Tc only	5	2,3
By ICG	215	97,7
By ICG only	48	21,8
Patients with tumor-affected SLN	21
Tumor-affected SLN detected per patient (mean, range)	1.3	1–3
Tumor-affected SLN	28	100.0
Tumor-affected SLN detected by both tracers	23	82.1
Tumor-affected SLN detected by Tc	24	85.7
Tumor-affected SLN detected by Tc only	1	3.6
Tumor-affected SLN detected by ICG	27	96.4
Tumor-affected SLN detected by ICG only	4	14.3