Cytokeratin on Frozen Sections of Sentinel Node May Spare Breast Cancer Patients Secondary Axillary Surgery

Table 1

Comparison of evaluations on frozen sections and paraffin sections of 335 patients with sentinel node biopsies with IHC on frozen sections (group 1).

Final evaluation on paraffin sections	Evaluation on frozen sections
	No metastasis	Metastasis	Total
No metastasis	217 (100%)	0 (0%)	217
ITC	3 (23%)	10 (77%)	13
MIC	7 (28%)	18 (72%)	25
MAC	5 (6%)	75 (94%)	80
Total	232 (69%)	103 (31%)	335