Efficacy of indocyanine green vs. radioisotope + blue dye for sentinel lymph node mapping in breast cancer patients
| Parameters | 99Tcm-Dx+BD (n = 271) | ICG+BD (n = 200) | P |
| ICG: indocyanine green; BD: blue dye. | |||
| SLN identification rate (%) | 99.6 (270/271) | 99.0 (198/200) | 0.790 |
| SLN counts | 3.91±2.13 | 3.72±2.28 | 0.090 |
| Metastatic SLN rate (%) | 22.9 (62/271) | 25.5 (51/200) | 0.510 |
| Metastatic SLN counts | 0.34±0.78 | 0.38±0.84 | 0.460 |
| Sensitivity | 92.5 (62/67) | 94.4 (51/54) | 0.960 |
| False-negative rate (%) | 7.5 (5/67) | 5.6 (3/54) | |