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Table 2 Patients and lymph node characteristics

From: Magnetic procedure for sentinel lymph node detection and evaluation of metastases: design and rationale of the Lowmag trial

Participan

1

2

3

 4

5

6

7

8

9

Age (years)

60

52

61

65

68

53

54

68

55

BMI (kg/m2)

31,6

30,4

26,4

29,4

25,4

20,2

28,3

31,5

43,9

Tumour type

Invasive NST

Invasive NST

Invasive NST

DCIS gr2

Invasive NST

Invasive NST

Invasive

Lobular

Invasive NST

Invasive NST

Tumour location

SPIO Injection site

Latero

cranial

Latero

cranial

dorsal

dorsal

dorsal

dorsal

dorsal

dorsal

dorsal

Interval SPIO-SLNB (days)

8

4

3

3

2

5

1

2

1

Patent Blue

(yes/no)

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

no

no

yes

yes

Resected SLN

2

1

2

1

3

5

2

2

2

Tumour stage

pT2n0

pT1N0

pT1N0

pTisN0

pT1N1(mi)

pT1N0

pT3N1a

pT2N0

pT1N0

Metastases size (mm)

ITC

   

1.6

 

2.4

  

Iron content per Lymph node (μg)a

1

2

3

4

5

46,47

0,81

0,0001

84,15

81,94

93,91

2,59

11,45

52,24

6,58

18,10

9,24

11,90

5,69

108,98

30,52

19,88

20,76

61,55

18,55

TC counts gammaprobe

1

2

3

4

5

140

3000

250

1425

638

2000

70

400

490

1040

5

5

2200

1100

9900

1400

240

12

10,400

5200

  1. BMI Body Mass Index, NST No Special Type, ITC Isolated Tumour Cell
  2. aThe underlined iron quantity pertains the lymph node with metastasis