Comparison of the indocyanine green dye method versus the combined method of indigo carmine blue dye with indocyanine green fluorescence imaging for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast conservative therapy for stage ≤IIA breast cancer

Table 3 Comparison of the identification rate of sentinel lymph nodes between ICG-D and CMF

Operation method	Identification rate	P-value
ICG-D	83.7% (77/92)	0.003
CMF	96.4% (106/110)

Abbreviations: ICG-D Indocyanine green dye method, CMF Combined mixed dye and fluorescence method

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