Table 2
Lowest apparent sizes of spherical metastases of given diameters with step sectioning at given distances
| Distance between sections | Metastasis size (diameter in mm) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 | 1.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | |
| The cells that are below the stepped line correctly identify micrometastases as such. (For details, see table 1.) | ||||||||
| ITC, isolated tumour cells. | ||||||||
| 2 mm | 0 (ITC) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1.5 mm | 1.32 | 0 (ITC) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1 mm | 1.73 | 1.12 | 0 (ITC) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0.5 mm | 1.94 | 1.41 | 0.87 | 0 (ITC) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0.25 mm | 1.98 | 1.48 | 0.97 | 0.43 | 0.31 | 0.17 | 0 | 0 |
| 0.2 mm | 1.99 | 1.49 | 0.98 | 0.46 | 0.35 | 0.22 | 0 | 0 |
| 0.15 mm | 1.99 | 1.49 | 0.99 | 0.48 | 0.37 | 0.26 | 0.13 | 0 |
| 0.1 mm | 2.0 | 1.50 | 0.99 | 0.49 | 0.39 | 0.28 | 0.17 | 0 |
| 0.05 mm | 2.0 | 1.50 | 1.0 | 0.50 | 0.40 | 0.30 | 0.19 | 0.09 |
