Research Article

Evaluation of a Surgical Navigation System for Localization and Excision of Nonpalpable Lesions in Breast and Axillary Surgery

Table 1

Patient and tumor characteristics of EnVisio Surgical Navigation system localized cohort (n = 22).

N = 22

Age (years)62 (42–81)
BMI26.9 (22–44)
History of previous ipsilateral breast surgery2 (9.1%)
Received neoadjuvant chemotherapy9 (52.9%)
Median tumor size (cm)1.4 5 (0.4–3.6)
Multifocal2 (9.1%)
Preoperative histopathology
Atypia1 (4.5%)
DCIS4 (18.2%)
IDC12 (54.5%)
ILC2 (9.1%)
Mixed IDC/ILC1 (4.5%)
IDC with DCIS1 (4.5%)
IMC1 (4.5%)

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy is only offered to patients with invasive tumors and the denominator for this particular variable was n = 17. DCIS, ductal carcinoma in situ; IDC, invasive ductal carcinoma; ILC, invasive lobular carcinoma; IMC, invasive mammary carcinoma.