Table 1.

Patient groups

Groups	FNAC	Pathological Diagnosis	n
B	Benign	Benign	16
PTC	Papillary thyroid carcinoma	Papillary thyroid carcinoma	15
AUS
AUS-B	AUS	Benign	15
AUS-M	AUS	Papillary thyroid carcinoma	13
FN
FN-B	Suspicious for Follicular neoplasia	Benign (follicular adenoma)	4
FN-M	Suspicious for Follicular neoplasia	Malignant (follicular carcinoma)	6

FNAC Fine needle aspiration cytology, n number of patients, AUS atypia of undetermined significance, FN Follicular neoplasm, AUS-B atypia of undetermined significance – benign, AUS-M atypia of undetermined significance – Malignant, FN-B Follicular adenoma, FN-M Follicular carcinoma