METHODS CLASSICAL METHOD MACHINERY AND CLEARANCE SOLUTION METHODS TOTAL
Metastasis / lymph nodes Metastasis / lymph nodes Metastasis / lymph nodes
  121 / 372 Pan 23 / 105 144 / 477
  95  / 400 Spiral 51 / 156 146 / 556
  90  / 306 CS 61 / 164 151 / 470
  143 / 348 AAF 39 / 139 182 / 487
TOTAL  449 / 1426   174 / 564 623 / 1990
CS = modified Koren clearing solution; AAF = formaldehyde-alcohol acetic acid solution
Table 3: Distribution of samples according to the amount of lymph nodes isolates with and without metastasis before and after the use of fat clearing methods and the total.