Table 1.

Summary of thyroid frozen sections’ diagnosis categories, all the subtypes included, and their corresponding surgery plan for each category.

Diagnosis	Subtypes included	Surgery plan
Benign	Normal thyroids, nodular hyperplasia, multinodular goiter, lymphocytic thyroiditis, Hashimoto thyroiditis, granulomatous thyroiditis	Lobectomy for thyroid nodules, no more surgery
Malignant	PTC, medullary carcinoma, poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma, thyroid lymphoma	Further resection, total thyroidectomy, possible lymph node sampling, or neck dissection
Uncertain	Follicular adenoma, follicular carcinoma, follicular PTC, adenomatous nodules	Hemithyroidectomy, deferring to permanent sections

Note: PTC, papillary thyroid carcinoma.