Table 6. Diagnostic Concordance Rates between CNB and Final Surgical Resection Specimen in Follicular-Patterned Lesion of Thyroid.
| Diagnostic Concordance | Follicular-Patterned Lesion (%) | Nodular Hyperplasia (%) | Follicular Adenoma (%) | Follicular Carcinoma (%) | Follicular Variant Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C | M | C | M | C | M | C | M | C | M | |
| Discordant | 8 (17) | 9 (6) | 1 (7) | 7 (39) | 1 (8) | 1 (2) | 3 (43) | 0 (0) | 3 (27) | 1 (2) |
| Cordant | 38 (83) | 137 (94) | 14 (93) | 11 (61) | 12 (92) | 60 (98) | 4 (57) | 19 (100) | 8 (73) | 47 (98) |
| Total | 46 | 146 | 15 | 18 | 13 | 61 | 7 | 19 | 11 | 48 |
| p = 0.033 | p = 0.046 | p = 0.322 | p = 0.013 | p = 0.018 | ||||||