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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Cytopathol. 2022 Mar 4;130(6):423–432. doi: 10.1002/cncy.22564

TABLE 4.

Previously Reported Series of Adrenal Gland Cytology

Year No. of
Cases		 Nondiagnostic,
No. (%)		 Malignant, No.
(%)		 Malignant Origin
(Adrenal/Other)		 False-Positive False-Negative
Katz et al6 1984 22 NA 13 (59) 6/7 0 2
Wadih et al19 1992 50 6 (12) 27 (54) 4/23 0 0
de Agustin et al18 1999 169 48 (28) 56 (33) 0/56 1 0
Tirabassi et al20 2012 50 11 (22) 18 (36) 4/14 0 3
Novotny et al17 2019 198 15 (8) 105 (53) 0/105 0 2
Martin-Cardona et al16 2019 204 10 (5) 122 (60) NA NA NA
Point du Jour et al15 2020 139 12 (9) 77 (55) 5/72 0 1
Mustafa et al21 2020 484 67 (14) 199 (41) 5/194 0 1
This study 473 35 (7) 272 (58) 11/261 1 0

Abbreviation: NA, not available.