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Table 3 Comparison of Pathology results and Pancytokeratin AE1/3 FACS results

From: Detection of micro-metastases by flow cytometry in lymph nodes from patients with penile cancer

Patient

Pathology results

pN staging (by standard pathology)

FACS results

pN staging (FACS)

Total no. of aLNs received

Total no. of metastatic LNs

 

Total no. of LNs tested

Total no. of metastatic LNs

 

1

7

0

pN0

1

1

pN1

2

1

0

pN0

1

0

pN0

3

2

1

pN1

2

2

pN2

4b

4

2

pN2

3

1

pN1

5

3

0

pN0

3

0

pN0

  1. aLNs stand for lymph nodes
  2. bThe second metastatic LN identified by pathology was never subjected to flow cytometry analysis