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Table 2 The results of AUS and US-FNAB detection of nodal metastasis relative to tumor stage

From: Pre-operative and intra-operative detection of axillary lymph node metastases in 108 patients with invasive lobular breast cancer undergoing mastectomy

Tumor stage

pN+

No. of positive axillas detected by AUS

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

p-value

pN+

No. of positive axillas detected by US-FNAB

Sensitivity (%)

Specificity (%)

p-value

T1

12

4

33

97

0.0001

3

2

67

100

0.116

T2

22

9

41

83

9

2

22

100

T3

10

8

80

67

7

5

71

100

T4

1

1

100

0

1

1

100

50