Detection of Melanoma Metastases in Resected Human Lymph Nodes by Noninvasive Multispectral Photoacoustic Imaging

Table 1

Patient characteristics.

Patient	Age	Gender	Node	Histology	Node longest diameter (cm)	Used as reference
1	37	Male	1	Benign	0.5
2	65	Female	2	Malignant	1.4	Yes
3	24	Female	3	Benign	1.0	Yes
4	62	Male	4	Benign	0.9
			5	Benign	1.1	Yes
5	79	Female	6	Malignant*	1.2
6	62	Female	7	Benign	0.6
			8	Benign	1.5	Yes
7	38	Male	9	Benign	1.2
			10	Benign	0.8
8	25	Female	11	Malignant	1.2	Yes
			12	Benign	1.8	Yes

 *Amelanotic melanoma.