Review Article
Can We Identify or Exclude Extensive Axillary Nodal Involvement in Breast Cancer Patients Preoperatively?
Table 4
Summary of studies on 18F-FDG PET/CT to exclude patients with extensive nodal involvement.
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No. of false negatives = number of patients with normal/negative PET/CT but histologically extensive nodal involvement; no. of true negatives = number of patients with normal/negative PET/CT and histologically no/limited nodal involvement; NPV = negative predictive value; FNR = false-negative rate. |