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Table 1 Histopathologic diagnosis of 315 thyroid nodules

From: Heterogeneous echogenicity of the underlying thyroid parenchyma: how does this affect the analysis of a thyroid nodule?

Final pathology

n (%)

Malignant (n = 306, 97.1%)

 

  Papillary carcinoma, conventional

264 (86.3)

  Papillary carcinoma, follicular variant

29 (9.5)

  Papillary carcinoma, diffuse sclerosing variant

5 (1.6)

  Papillary carcinoma, oncocytic variant

3 (1.0)

  Medullary carcinoma

3 (1.0)

  Follicular carcinoma

1 (0.3)

  Hűrthle cell carcinoma

1 (0.3)

Benign (n = 9, 2.9%)

 

  Adenomatous hyperplasia

8 (88.9)

  Hyalinizing trabecular adenoma

1 (11.1)