TABLE 3.
Specific Surgical Histopathologic Diagnosis for each of the FNA Categories
| Preoperative FNA result | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surgical pathology diagnosis | Benign (%) | Inconclusive (%) | Malignant (%) | Nondiagnostic (%) | Total |
| n | 45 | 66 | 47 | 7 | 165 |
| Carcinoma (%) | 72 | ||||
| Papillary thyroid carcinoma | 3 (6.7) | 12 (18.2) | 37 (78.7) | 0 | 52 |
| Follicular thyroid carcinoma | 0 | 6 (9.1) | 2 (4.3) | 1 (14.3) | 9 |
| Hürthle cell carcinoma | 0 | 3 (4.5) | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Medullary thyroid carcinoma | 0 | 1 (1.5) | 5 (10.6) | 0 | 6 |
| Anaplastic | 0 | 0 | 1 (2.1) | 0 | 1 |
| B-cell lymphoma | 0 | 1 (1.5) | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Benign neoplasm (%) | 52 | ||||
| Follicular adenoma | 13 (28.9) | 24 (36.4) | 2 (4.3) | 5 (71.4) | 44 |
| Hürthle cell adenoma | 0 | 7 (10.6) | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Other | 0 | 1 (1.5) | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Benign pathology (%) | 41 | ||||
| Multinodular goiter | 18 (40.0) | 2 (3.0) | 0 | 0 | 20 |
| Benign nodule/cyst | 11 (24.4) | 9 (13.6) | 0 | 1 (14.3) | 21 |