Table 1 Concordance rate between needle core biopsies and subsequent surgical specimens
| Authors | No. | Grade (%) | Tubule formation (%) | Nuclear pleomorphism (%) | Mitosis (%) | Tumour type (%) | ER (%) | PgR (%) | HER2 (%) |
| Usami et al (2007)68 | 111 | 75 | 83 | 95 | 88 | 88 | |||
| Cahill et al (2006)51 | 95 | 77 | 98 | 68 | 71 | 60 | |||
| Burge et al (2006)52 | 87 | 77 | 100 | 95 | 89 | 96 | |||
| Hodi et al (2007)105 | 338 | 99 | |||||||
| Badoual et al (2005)24 | 110 | 73.1 | 74 | 90 | 89. | ||||
| Usami et al (2005)45 | 22 | 80 | 89 | 100 | 95 | 80 | |||
| Monticciolo (2005)46 | 288 | 77 nuclear grade | |||||||
| 74 combined grade | |||||||||
| Al Sarakbi et al (2005)102 | 93 | 95 | 89 | ||||||
| Mann et al (2005)53 | 100 | 86 | 83 | 80 | |||||
| Deshpande et al (2005)57 | 105 | 75 | 96 | ||||||
| O’Leary et al (2004)37 | 113 | 62 | 56 | 57 | 59 | 65 | |||
| Andrade and Gobbi (2004)59 | 120 | 59 | 55 | 58.9 | 62 | 67 | |||
| Harris et al (2003)40 | 500 | 67 | 82 | 73 | 58 | 74 | |||
| Connor et al (2002)106 | 44 | 64 | 98 | 82 | 91 | ||||
| McIntosh et al (2002)44 | 133 | 91 | 84 | ||||||
| Shannon et al (2001)43 | 734 | 75 grade 1 | 94 | ||||||
| 70 grade 2 | |||||||||
| 86 grade 3 | |||||||||
| Sharifi et al (1999)47 | 79 | 75 | 81 | ||||||
| Gotzinger et al (1998)55 | 150 | 84 | 100 | 97 | 91.3 | ||||
| Jacobs et al (1998)108 | 56 | 100 | 100 | ||||||
| Di Loreto et al (1996)9 | 41 | 80 | 76 | 78 | 80 | 90 | |||
| Dahlstrom et al (1996)7 | 51 | 69 | 78 | ||||||
| Baildam et al (1989)16 | 140 | 69 | |||||||
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ER, oestrogen receptor; PgR, progesterone receptor.
