From: Clinical aspects of sentinel node biopsy
Method
SLN found
False negative SLN
Accuracy overall
Isotope [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19]
2112/2292 (92%)
54/779 (7%)
1942/1996 (97%)
Blue dye [20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30]
714/886 (81%)
23/245 ((9%)
691/717 (96%)
Combined [31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42]
1071/1155 (93%)
21/417 (5%)
1042/1063 (98%)
Total
3897/4333 (90%)
98/1441 (7%)
3675/3776 (97%)