Table 5.

Triage Efficacy for Triggering Surgery in Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology

	Encapsulated	Infiltrative	Total
FNAC alone	22/30 (73%)	23/29 (79%)	45/59 (76%)
FNAC & galectin-3	1/11 (9%)	27/27 (100%)	28/38 (74%)
FNAC & BRAF mutation	22/30 (73%)	23/28 (82%)	45/58 (78%)
FNAC & RAS mutation	26/28 (93%)	23/26 (89%)	49/54 (91%)
FNAC & somatic mutation	27/29 (93%)	25/28 (89%)	52/57 (91%)

FNAC, fine-needle aspiration cytology; triage efficacy, defined as classification of an FNAC as papillary thyroid carcinoma, suspicious for malignancy, or follicular neoplasm.