Table 4.
Associations between the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology categories, BRAF V600E mutation, and the final diagnosis for the 131 nodules examined.
| BRAFV600E | TBSRTC | Both | |||||||||
| Histopathology | Negative | Positive | I | II | III | IV | V | VI | Benign | Malignancy | Total |
| Benign | 15 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 16 |
| Malignant | 24 | 91 | 1 | 5 | 41 | 0 | 51 | 17 | 12 | 103 | 115 |
| Total | 39 | 92 | 1 | 11 | 46 | 0 | 56 | 17 | 22 | 109 | 131 |
TBSRTC = The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology, TBSRTC = The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology.