Table 2.
Aggressive features by Bethesda category.
| Aggressive Features | Bethesda III 199 Malignant |
Bethesda IV 216 Malignant |
p Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tall cell variant of PTC | 6 (3.0) | 4 (1.9) | 0.34 |
| Solid variant of PTC | 7 (3.5) | 1 (0.5) | 0.013 |
| Columnar cell variant of PTC | 0 (0) | 1 (0.5) | 0.36 |
| Diffusing sclerosing variant of PTC | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | - |
| Hobnail variant of PTC | 3 (1.5) | 1 (0.5) | 0.21 |
| Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma | 2 (1.0) | 4 (1.0) | 0.59 |
| ETE | 2 (1.0) | 1 (0.5) | 0.43 |
| LN+ | 17 (8.5) | 10 (4.6) | 0.036 |