Improving the reproducibility of diagnosing micrometastases and isolated tumor cells

The latest edition of the tumor‐lymph node‐metastasis (TNM) classification of malignant tumors distinguishes between isolated tumor cells (pN0) and micrometastases (pN1mi). The reproducibility of these categories has not been assessed previously.

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