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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Correlation between the area of high-signal intensity on SPIO-enhanced MR imaging and the pathologic size of sentinel node metastases in breast cancer patients with positive sentinel nodes

 

No. of patients

%

Age, years

  

    <50

45

30.0

    ≥50

105

70.0

Tumor size, cm

  

    ≤2

95

63.3

    >2, ≤5

53

35.3

    >5

2

1.3

Tumor location

  

    Upper outer

82

54.7

    Upper inner

30

20.0

    Lower outer

24

16.0

    Lower inner

4

2.7

    Central

8

5.3

    Multicentric

2

1.3

Tumor histology

  

    Invasive ductal

132

88.0

    Invasive lobular

7

4.7

    Ductal carcinoma in situ

7

4.7

    Others

4

2.7

Type of surgery

  

    Lumpectomy

146

96.7

    Mastectomy

4

3.3

Estrogen receptor

  

    Positive

123

82.0

    Negative

27

18.0

HER-2/neu

  

    Positive

19

12.7

    Negative

131

87.3