Detection of sentinel and non-sentinel lymph node micrometastases by complete serial sectioning and immunohistochemical analysis for gastric cancer

Table 3 Distribution pattern of lymph node micrometastasis

	Number of cases
Distribution pattern of micrometastasis	Routine histological examination	complete serial sectioning and IHC
SLNs (-), non-SLNs (-)	35	31
SLNs (+), non-SLNs (-)	0	3
SLNs (+), non-SLNs (+)	0	1
SLNs (-), non-SLNs (+)	0	0