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

Table 3

Detection rates for Tc and ICG referring to different reference groups.

Reference group	Method	SLN; Detected/positive	SLN; Total	Detection rate (%)	Lower 95% CI (%)	Upper 95% CI (%)	False negative rate (%)
Total SLN	Tc	172	220	78,2	72,7	83,6	21,8
	ICG	215	220	97,7	95,8	99,7	2,3
All patients	Tc	97	99	98,0	95,2	100,0	2,0
	ICG	97	99	98,0	95,2	100,0	2,0
Tumor-affected SLN	Tc	24	28	85,7	72,8	98,7	14,3
	ICG	27	28	96,4	89,6	100,0	3,6
All pN+ patients	Tc	20	21	95,2	86,1	100,0	4,8
	ICG	21	21	100,0	—	—	0,0