Diagnostic Accuracy of the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC): An Institution Experience

Table 5

Rates of surgical resection between institutions.

Bethesda category	Our institution (%) N = 855	Higuchi et al. (%) [16] N = 10,399	Inabnet et al. (%) [17] N = 21,746	Nayar and Ivanovic (%) [18] N = 5194	Voung et al. (%) [19] N = 145,066
I	2.7	N/A	N/A	25.5	13.9
II	3.3	N/A	N/A	10.7	13
III	11.4	N/A	N/A	46.5	36.2
IV	76.9	N/A	N/A	80.8	60.5
V	100	N/A	N/A	85.6	69.7
VI	95	N/A	N/A	88.2	72.1
Total resection rate (RR)	9.0	56.3	100	27.2	N/A