Table 1 Summary of patient demographics and clinical characteristics
From: Intraoperative optical coherence tomography for assessing human lymph nodes for metastatic cancer
Characteristic | Imaged | Used | Percent |
|---|---|---|---|
Total # of subjects | 51 | 42 | 82Â % |
Age, years | |||
 Mean | 61.9 | 62.6 |  |
 Stand. Dev. | 12.3 | 11.9 |  |
 Range | 34–84 | 38–84 |  |
  ≤ 65 | 29 | 23 |  |
  > 65 | 22 | 19 |  |
Tumor type | |||
 Ductal | 43 | 35 | 81 % |
 DCIS | 34 | 28 |  |
 IDC | 36 | 29 |  |
 Lobular | 13 | 12 | 92 % |
 LCIS | 10 | 9 |  |
 ILC | 10 | 9 |  |
 Micropapillary | 5 | 4 | 80 % |
 Multi-type | 9 | 8 | 89 % |
Tumor size (greatest dimension) | |||
  < 1 cm | 15 | 14 | 93 % |
 1–2 cm | 23 | 18 | 78 % |
  > 2 cm | 13 | 10 | 77 % |
Tissue imaged | |||
 Lymph nodes | 128 | 76 | 59 % |
 Imaging sites | 184 | 99 | 54 % |
 Histopathology + nodes | 118 | 17 | 14 % |
Lymph node metastasis size | |||
 (greatest dimension) | |||
  ≤ 2 mm | 1 | 0 | 0 % |
  > 2 mm | 19 | 17 | 89 % |