Table 3.

The prevalence of incidental and non-incidental papillary thyroid microcarcinoma in each year

	Incidental	Non-incidental	Total	p
2008	5 (1.03%)	4 (0.83%)	9 (1.86%)	0.7115
2009	3 (0.79%)	10 (2.62%)	13 (3.40%)	0.0261
2010	3 (0.71%)	9 (2.13%)	12 (2.84%)	0.0578
2011	4 (0.83%)	5 (1.04%)	9 (1.86%)	0.7169
2012	9 (1.66%)	9 (1.66%)	18 (3.31%)	1
2013	7 (1.24%)	9 (1.59%)	16 (2.83%)	0.5874
2014	4 (1.06%)	6 (1.60%)	10 (2.66%)	0.4911
2015	6 (1.01%)	25 (4.21%)	31 (5.22%)	0.0001
2016	11 (2.31%)	27 (5.66%)	38 (7.97%)	0.003

Statistically significant differences are shown in italics