Malignancy Risk for Fine-Needle Aspiration of Thyroid Nodules according to the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology, at King Abdul-Aziz, National Guard Hospital
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Materials and methods: A retrospective cross-sectional study in which all cases of thyroid nodules, presented to the OPC between September 2009 and August 2015 at King Abdulaziz NGHA. All preoperative cytologic examination by FNA and concurrent postoperative histopathologic examination were included. All FNA diagnoses were reclassified using the thyroid FNA Bethesda reporting system, including nondiagnostic, benign, atypical follicular lesion of undetermined significance, follicular/ hurthle cell neoplasm, suspicious for malignancy and malignant categories, the rate of malignancy based on final histopathologic evaluation was analyzed for each of these cytologic groups.
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