Table 3. Distribution of various thyroid lesions (n=123) according to fine-needle aspiration cytology diagnosis and diagnostic parameters about biopsy diagnosis.

	Inflammatory		Benign Lesions		Malignant Lesions
	Hashimoto's thyroiditis	Colloid Goitre	Suspicious of Follicular neoplasm	Follicular neoplasm	Papillary thyroid carcinoma
No	6	86	11	20	2
Percentage	4.68	70.31	9.37	15.62	1.56
Sensitivity (%)	90.48
Specificity (%)	92.38
NPV (%)	90.11
PPV (%)	89.46