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Table 1 Clinicopathologic characteristics of patients with thyroid nodules enrolled in this study

From: Analytic and clinical validity of thyroid nodule mutational profiling using droplet digital polymerase chain reaction

Variable

All (%)

N = 208

Bethesda Categories (%)

I (non-dx)

N = 56

II (benign)

N = 115

III (AUS/FLUS)

N = 11

IV (FN/SFN)

N = 6

V (SFM)

N = 5

IV (malignant)

N = 15

Age

 Mean

54.8

55.6

54.2

51.2

67.3

52.8

55.5

  < 45

22.1

19.6

24.3

27.2

16.7

0

20.0

  > 45

77.9

81.8

75.6

72.3

83.3

100.0

80.0

Sex (female)

67.8

23.6

46.2

81.8

50.0

80.0

66.7

Nodule size

 1.0–3.9 cm

90.4

100

86.1

100

66.7

100

86.7

 ≥4.0 cm

9.6

0

13.9

0

33.3

0

13.3

Sonographic Risk Features

 High

11.3

3.8

8.4

11.1

0

40.0

61.5

 Intermediate

25.2

19.2

28.4

44.4

16.7

40.0

7.7

 Low

39.7

48.1

38.5

22.2

83.3

0

23.1

 Very low

18.0

21.2

18.3

22.2

0

20.0

7.7

 Benign

5.6

7.7

6.4

0

0

0

0

Surgery Performed (%)

92 (44.2)

22 (39.2)

34 (29.6)

11 (100)

6 (100)

4 (80)

15 (100)

  1. AUS/FLUS atypia of uncertain significance/follicular lesion of undetermined significance, FN/SFN follicular neoplasm/suspicious for follicular neoplasm, SFM suspicious for malignancy