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. 2013 Dec 23;8(12):e84637. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084637

Table 1. Summary of the tissue specimens collected from the patients.

Group No. of patients Age No. of tissue specimens
n (male/female) mean ± SD n (male/female)
Lesions --- --- ---
non-neoplastic nodules - NN 10 (10/0) 61.7 ± 8.1 16 (16/0)
follicular adenomas - FA 9 (7/2) 40.1 ± 11.7 14 (9/5)
thyroid carcinomas - TC 12 (10/2) 57.5 ± 17.7 15 (12/3)
Total 31 (27/4) 53.6 ± 15.8 45 (37/8)
Healthy 19 (17/2) 52.5 ± 14.5 19 (17/2)