Immunostaining with D2–40 improves evaluation of lymphovascular invasion, but may not predict sentinel lymph node status in early breast cancer

Table 2 Correlation between (lympho-)vascular invasion and sentinel lymph node (SLN) status

SLN	Vascular invasion assessed by H&E		Lymph vascular invasion assessed by immunostaining with D2–40
	Negative	Positive	Negative	Positive
Negative	57	4	44	17
Positive	29	2	21	10
Total	86	6	65	27
p values*	0.090		0.376

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