The Accurate Interpretation and Clinical Significance of Morphological Features of Fine Needle Aspiration Cells in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Table 1

The clinical characteristics of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma and benign lesions (%).

Groups	n	Age		Gender		Nodule size
		21–40	41–71	Male	Female	0.3–0.9 cm	1–4.5 cm
PTC	337	139**	198	71	266	246	91
Classic PTC	91	38*	53	21	70	0	91**
Micro-PTC	246	101*	145	50	196	246**	0
BL	197	50	147	38	159	128	69

PTC: papillary thyroid carcinoma; BL: benign lesions.
* as compared to benign, ** as compared to benign.