Research Article
The Accurate Interpretation and Clinical Significance of Morphological Features of Fine Needle Aspiration Cells in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma
Table 3
The nuclear volume characteristics of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma and benign lesions (%).
| | Groups | n | Enlargement | Elongation | Crowding | Overlap | Molding |
| | PTC | 337 | 249 (73.89) | 333 (98.81) | 332 (98.52) | 332 (98.52) | 307 (91.10) | | BL | 197 | 40 (20.30) | 55 (27.92) | 165 (83.76) | 151 (76.65) | 29 (14.72) | | TAD | 71 | 20 (28.17) | 31 (43.66) | 63 (88.73) | 63 (88.73) | 11 (15.49) | | NG | 64 | 4 (6.25) | 12 (18.75) | 47 (73.44) | 40 (62.5) | 7 (10.94) | | HD | 23 | 4 (17.39) | 6 (26.09) | 23 (100.00) | 20 (86.96) | 8 (34.78) | | NG and TAD | 39 | 12 (30.77) | 6 (15.38) | 32 (82.05) | 28 (71.79) | 3 (7.69) | | Sensitivity | (±95% CI) | 73.89 (±4.69) | 98.81 (±1.16) | 98.51 (±1.29) | 98.51 (±1.29) | 91.10 (±3.04) | | Specificity | (±95% CI) | 79.70 (±5.62)** | 72.08 (±6.26)** | 16.24 (±5.15) | 23.35 (±5.91) | 85.28 (±4.95)** | | Accuracy | (±95% CI) | 76.03 (±3.62) | 88.95 (±2.66) | 68.16 (±3.95) | 70.79 (±3.86) | 88.95 (±2.66) |
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PTC: papillary thyroid carcinoma; BL: benign lesions; TAD: thyroid adenoma; NG: nodular goiter; HD: Hashimoto’s disease. ** as compared to crowding or overlap. |
