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Table 4 Clinicopathological features of invasive carcinoma primary surgery group

From: Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration cytology in staging clinically node-negative invasive breast cancer

Pathological characteristics

N (%)

Histological type

 Invasive ductal carcinoma:

66/86 (76.7%)

 Invasive lobular carcinoma

12/86 (14.0%)

 Invasive mixed carcinoma

6/86 (7.0%)

 Invasive mucinous carcinoma

2/86 (2.3%)

Tumor grade

 G1

10/86 (11.6%)

 G2

57/86 (66.3%)

 G3

19/86 (22.1%)

Pathological tumor stage

 pT1a

2/86 (2.2%)

 pT1b

5/86 (5.8%)

 pT1c

31/86 (36.0%)

 pT2

39/86 (45.3%)

 pT3

8/86 (9.6%)

 pT4

1/86 (1.1%)

Lymphovascular infiltration

 Absent

65/86 (75.6%)

 Present

21/86 (24.4%)

Pathological node stage

 pN0 (sn)

29/86

 pN0

6/86

 pN1(sn)

1/86

 pN1

35/86

 pN2

11/86

 pN3

4/86

Total

86 (100%)