Relationship between Upper Extremity Lymphatic Drainage and Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Patients with Breast Cancer

Table 1

Metastasis rates in ARM-detected nodes vs. axillary lymph nodes.

		ARM node metastasis			p-value
		Positive	Negative
ALN metastasis	+	7	20	3.5	0.062
	-	0	17
SLN metastasis	+	7	14	6.8	0.009
	-	0	23

ARM, axillary reverse mapping; ALN, axillary lymph node; SLN, sentinel lymph node.