Table 3.

Relative risk for malignancy in thyroid nodules diagnosed as “follicular neoplasm” in FNA cytology according to the patients’ characteristics

	Relative risk	95% confidence interval
Male gender	1.49	0.56–3.96
Age ≥ 45 years	1.03	0.57–1.83
Age ≥ 60 years	3.98	1.25–12.6
Age ≥ 20 years	3.98	1.07–14.9
Size of lesion ≥ 4 cm	1.28	0.70–2.33