Table 3.
Distribution of MTNS scores within benign and malignant thyroid nodule categories based on surgical pathology
| Bethesda (III, IV, and V) thyroid nodules (N = 106) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benign (34.9%) | Malignant (65.1%) | |||||||||
| N | Mean | SD | Min | Max | N | Mean | SD | Min | Max | |
| MTNS | 37 | 8.32 | 2.32 | 4 | 14 | 69 | 12.81 | 3.55 | 4 | 24 |