Figure 5From: Accuracy of axillary ultrasound in preoperative nodal staging of breast cancer - size of metastases as limiting factorSLN-positive patients after ALND (n = 75). Involvement of non-SLN (NSLN). 43/75 patients (57.3%) with positive SLN had no further lymph node metastases. In patients with only one positive SLN the rate of positive NSLN is 33.3% (16/48).Back to article page