Clinical Study
Better Understanding in the Differentiation of Thyroid Follicular Adenoma, Follicular Carcinoma, and Follicular Variant of Papillary Carcinoma: A Retrospective Study
Table 4
Diagnostic performances of USFNA and intraoperative frozen section.
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FNA: fine needle aspiration; FS: frozen section; PPV: positive predictive value; NPV: negative predictive value. Note: raw data are in parenthesis. *Inadequate cytology results excluded, indeterminate, suspicious for malignancy and malignant cytology results considered positive. †Inadequate and indeterminate cytology results excluded. ‡46 nodules excluded due to deferred results on FS. |