Research Article

A Monocentric Retrospective Study about the Correlation between Histology and Cytology of Thyroid Indeterminate Nodules Classified as TIR 3A and TIR 3B, according to 2014 Italian Consensus for Classification and Reporting of Thyroid Cytology

Table 3

Final histological diagnosis associated with the relative cytological reports.

Histological diagnosisTIR 3ATIR 3BTotal

Adenoma232043
Papillary carcinoma92736
Follicular carcinoma61925
Poorly differentiated carcinoma011
Medullary carcinoma011
Goiter27936
Thyroiditis718
Total7278150

Malignant reports: follicular, papillary, poorly differentiated, oncocytic, and medullary carcinoma. Benign reports: adenoma, struma, and thyroiditis.