| TN | thyroid nodule |
| AUS | atypia of undetermined significance |
| FLUS | follicular lesion of undetermined significance |
| US | ultrasound |
| ROM | risk of malignancy |
| UG-FNAB | ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy |
| ATA | American Thyroid Association |
| TBSRTC | The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology |
| NIFTP | noninvasive follicular neoplasms with papillary-like feature |
| SD | standard deviation |
| PTC | papillary thyroid cancer |
| FTC | follicular thyroid cancer |
| KTIDS | Korean Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System |