Detection of BRAF V600E in Fine-Needle Aspiration Samples of Thyroid Nodules by Droplet Digital PCR

Table 4

Fractional abundance of the BRAF mutation in FNAB of different cytological categories.

Cytologic reporting	N	Fractional abundance
		≥0.2%		＜0.2%
		n	%	n	%
PTC	117	89	76.07	29	24.79
Suspicious for PTC	15	2	13.33	13	86.67
Benign	161	2	1.24	159	98.76
Follicular adenoma	13	1	7.69	12	92.31
Medullary carcinoma	1	0	0.00	1	100.00
Nondiagnostic	3	0	0.00	3	100.00