Table 1. Clinical, radiological, and cytopathologic characteristics of the 49 patients and thyroid nodules according to final pathology.

	Benign	Malignancy	P
Number of nodules	37 (75.5%)	12 (24.5%)	-
Mean age (years±SD)	50.73±9.40	49.50±10.39	0.431
Mean size of nodules (mm±SD)	13.43±8.76	7.18±2.93	0.022
Patient gender			0.634
Men (%)	5 (13.5)	1 (8.3)
Women (%)	32 (86.5)	11 (91.7)
US Assessment			0.004
Probably benign (%)	17 (45.9)	0 (0.0)
Suspicious malignant (%)	20 (54.1)	12 (100.0)
2nd BRAFV600E mutation			<0.001
Negative (%)	37 (100.0)	5 (41.7)
Positive (%)	0 (0.0)	7 (58.3)

SD: standard deviation