EU-TIRADS-Based Omission of Fine-Needle Aspiration and Cytology from Thyroid Nodules Overlooks a Substantial Number of Follicular Thyroid Cancers

Table 1

The clinical and histopathological data of the 274 thyroid cancer patients.

	Follicular cancer (N = 30)	Papillary cancer (N = 221)	Medullary cancer (N = 23)
Male : female	5 : 25	45 : 176	5 : 18
Age (years) mean ± SD	50.4 ± 17.1	43.4 ± 15.0	56.6 ± 17.0
Maximum diameter of the tumor (mm), mean ± SD	27.2 ± 12.4	17.3 ± 9.9	26.2 ± 17.0
Results of FNA according to the Bethesda classification^1	1: 1	1: 14	1: 0
	2: 1	2: 8	2: 1
	3: 1	3: 1	3: 0
	4: 22	4: 13	4: 0
	5: 5	5: 68	5: 5
	6: 0	6: 117	6: 17
Histopathological stage^1	Stage I: 11	Stage I: 139	Stage I: 7
	Stage II: 11	Stage II: 46	Stage II: 6
	Stage III: 3	Stage III: 28	Stage III: 6
	Stage IV: 5	Stage IV: 8	Stage IV: 4

¹Histopathological staging according to reference [28].