Table 1.

Distribution of Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology Diagnoses According to the Histologic Subtypes of Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Diagnostic category	Encapsulated	Infiltrative	Total
Nondiagnostic	0	0	0
Benign	1 (3%)	2 (7%)	3 (5%)
Atypia of undetermined significance	7 (23%)	4 (14%)	11 (19%)
Follicular neoplasm/suspicious for a follicular neoplasm	3 (10%)	5 (17%)	8 (14%)
Suspicious for papillary carcinoma	8 (27%)	9 (31%)	17 (29%)
Papillary carcinoma	11 (37%)	9 (31%)	20 (34%)
Total	30 (100%)	29 (100%)	59 (100%)