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Classification of the 231 thyroid nodules analyzed in this study according to the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC) diagnostic categories compared to the total malignancy score (TMS) system and the final diagnosis
| TBSRTC category | TMS |
Final diagnosis |
No. of patients (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <3 | 3 | >3 | Negative | Positive | ||
| II | 107 | 35 | 54 | - | - | 196 (85) |
| III | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 11 (5) |
| IV | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 8 (3) |
| V | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 7 (3) |
| VI | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 9 (4) |
| Total | 108 | 42 | 81 | 2 | 33 | 231 (100) |
