OSNA and FP appeared to be promising tools for the detection of lymph node micro- and macrometastases in SLNs after SLNM. The performances of OSNA and FP in this study were superior to RP. Because OSNA allows analysis of the whole lymph node, sampling bias can be avoided. OSNA therefore may improve tumor staging.

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