Number of patients with lymph node metastases described intra-operatively and in the definitive histology stratified according to the size of lymph node metastasis
| Type of metastases | FS* | Definitive histology† | Detection rate of FS |
| MAC | 16 | 24 | 67% |
| MIC | 2 | 14 | 14% |
| ITCs | 0 | 10 | 0% |
| Negative | 261 | ||
*Largest metastasis in SLN.
†Largest metastasis in SLNs and/or PLNs.
FS, frozen section; ITC, isolated tumor cell; MAC, macrometastasis; MIC, micrometastasis; PLN, pelvic lymph node; SLN, sentinel lymph node.