Table 2.
Relation between the number of previous ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) and ultrasonography-guided core needle biopsy (CNB) results
| Number of ultrasonography-guided FNAs | Number of nodules (n=88) | Ultrasonography-guided CNB results |
Ultrasonography-guided CNB results |
p-value | |||
| Group A | Group B | Group C | Conclusive (n=76) | Inconclusive (n=12) | |||
| 1 | 60 (68.2) | 35 (66.0) | 15 (60.0) | 10 (100.0) | 54 (71.1) | 6 (50.0) | 0.205 |
| 2 | 18 (20.5) | 11 (20.8) | 7 (28.0) | 0 | 14 (18.4) | 4 (33.3) | |
| ≥3 | 10 (11.3) | 7 (13.2) | 3 (12.0) | 0 | 8 (10.5) | 2 (16.7) | |
Data are numbers of lesions. Numbers in parentheses are percentages.