Table 1.
Correlation of pre-operative FNA cytological conclusions and final histopathological diagnoses in 78 patients. * Ukrainian-American Cohort Study of Thyroid Cancer and Other Thyroid Diseases (1998-2000).
| Histopathological diagnosis | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cytological interpretation |
PTC | FTC | FA | NG | Total |
| PTC | 24 | 24 | |||
| Suspect PTC | 10 | 1 | 11 | ||
| FN | 8 | 2 | 18 | 9† | 37 |
| Suspect FN | 2 | 2 | 4 | ||
| NG | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Total | 42 | 2 | 22 | 12 | 78 |
Abbreviations:
PTC papillary thyroid cancer
FTC follicular thyroid cancer
FA follicular adenoma
NG nodular goiter (uninodular and multinodular goiter)
FN follicular neoplasm
*
Correlation is for the nodule that resulted in referral to surgery.
†
One nodule classified on FNA as FN was diagnosed histopathologically as a non-neoplastic nodule with fibrosclerotic and cystic changes.