Research Article
Diagnostic Accuracy of the Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology (TBSRTC): An Institution Experience
Table 1
TBSRTC 2017 Bethesda categories [
8].
| Bethesda category | Category title | Risk of malignancy if NIFTP = cancer (%) | Risk of malignancy if NIFTP ≠ cancer (%) |
| I | Nondiagnostic or unsatisfactory | 5–10 | 5–10 | II | Benign | 0–3 | 0–3 | III | Atypia of undetermined significance (AUS) or follicular lesion of undetermined significance (FLUS) | 6–18 | 10–30 | IV | Follicular neoplasm or suspicious for a follicular neoplasm | 10–40 | 25–40 | V | Suspicious for malignancy | 45–60 | 50–75 | VI | Malignant | 94–96 | 97–99 |
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