Megwalu (3030 Megwalu UC. Risk of Malignancy in Thyroid Nodules 4 cm or Larger. Endocrinol Metab (Seoul). 2017;32:77-82.) |
62 |
≥4 |
0.0 |
Porterfield and cols. (2727 Porterfield JR, Grant CS, Dean DS, Thompson GB, Farley DR, Richards ML. Reliability of benign fine needle aspiration cytology of large Thyroid nodules. Surgery. 2008;144:963-9.) |
145 |
≥3 |
0.7 |
Raj and cols. (2828 Raj MD, Grodski S, Woodruff S, Yeung M, Paul E, Serpell JW. Diagnostic lobectomy is not routinely required to exclude malignancy in thyroid nodules greater than four centimetres. ANZ J Surg. 2012;82:73-7.) |
118 |
≥4 |
0.8 |
Rosario and cols. (2323 Rosario PW, Salles DS, Bessa B, Purisch S. Low false negative rate of cytology in thyroid nodules > or = 4 cm. Arq Bras Endocrinol Metabol. 2009;53:1143-5.) |
84 |
≥4 |
3.6 |
Nam and cols. (4141 Nam SJ, Kwak JY, Moon HJ, Yoon JH, Kim EK, Koo JS. Large (≥3cm) thyroid nodules with benign cytology: Can Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System 9TIRADS) help predict false-negative cytology? PLoS One. 2017;12(10):e0186242.) |
632 |
≥3 |
3.6 |
Kuru and cols. (2424 Kuru B, Gulcelik NE, Gulcelik MA, Dincer H. The false negative rate of fine-needle aspiration cytology for diagnosing thyroid carcinoma in thyroid nodules. Langenbecks Arch Surg. 2010;395:127-32.) |
98 |
≥4 |
4.1 |
Cavallo and cols. (2525 Cavallo A, Johnson DN, White MG, Siddiqui S, Antic T, Mathew M, et al. Thyroid Nodule Size at Ultrasound as a Predictor of Malignancy and Final Pathologic Size. Thyroid. 2017; 27:641-50.) |
37 |
≥4 |
5.4 |
Shrestha and cols. (2929 Shrestha M, Crothers BA, Burch HB. The impact of thyroid nodule size on the risk of malignancy and accuracy of fineneedle aspiration: a 10-year study from a single institution. Thyroid. 2012;22:1251-6.) |
98 |
≥4 |
7.1 |
Pinchot and cols. (1919 Pinchot SN, Al-Wagih H, Schaefer S, Sippel R, Chen H. Accuracy of fine-needle aspiration biopsy for predicting neoplasm or carcinoma in thyroid nodules 4 cm or larger. Arch Surg. 2009;144:649-55.) |
52 |
≥4 |
7.7 |
Al Dawish and cols. (2222 Al Dawish MA, Robert AA, Thabet MA, Braham R. Thyroid Nodule Management: Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone, Ultrasound, and Cytological Classification System for Predicting Malignancy. Cancer Informatics. 2018;17:1-9.) |
60 |
≥4 |
8.3 |
Bozbiyik and cols. (4343 Bozbiyik O, Öztürk S, Ünver M, Erol V, Bayol Ü, Aydın C. Reliability of fine needle aspiration biopsy in large thyroid nodules. Turk J Surg. 2017;33:10-3.) |
82 |
≥4 |
9.3 |
Wharry and cols. (99 Wharry LI, McCoy KL, Stang MT, Armstrong MJ, LeBeau SO, Tublin ME, et al. Thyroid nodules (≥4 cm): can ultrasound and cytology reliably exclude cancer? World J Surg. 2014;38:614-21.) |
125 |
≥4 |
10.4 |
Mehanna and cols. (1010 Mehanna R, Murphy M, McCarthy J, O’Leary G, Tuthill A, Murphy MS, et al. False negatives in thyroid cytology: impact of large nodule size and follicular variant of papillary carcinoma. Laryngoscope. 2013;123:1305-9.) |
120 |
≥3 |
10.9 |
Giles and cols. (1111 Giles WH, Maclellan RA, Gawande AA, Ruan DT, Alexander EK, Moore FD Jr, et al. False Negative Cytology in Large Thyroid Nodules. Ann Surg Oncol. 2015;22:152-7.) |
146 |
≥4 |
11.0 |
Kim and cols. (1212 Kim JH, Kim NK, Oh YL, Kim HJ, Kim SY, Chung JH, et al. The Validity of Ultrasonography-Guided Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy in Thyroid Nodules 4 cm or Larger Depends on Ultrasonography Characteristics. Endocrinol Metab (Seoul). 2014;29:545-52.) |
67 |
≥4 |
11.9 |
McCoy and cols. (1313 McCoy KL, Jabbour N, Ogilvie JB, Ohori NP, Carty SE, Yim JH. The incidence of cancer and rate of false-negative cytology in Thyroid nodules greater than or equal to 4 cm in size. Surgery. 2007;142:837-44; discussion 844.e1-3.) |
71 |
≥4 |
12.7 |
Koo and cols. (1414 Koo DH, Song K, Kwon H, Bae DS, Kim JH, Min HS, et al. Does Tumor Size Influence the Diagnostic Accuracy of Ultrasound-Guided Fine-Needle Aspiration Cytology for Thyroid Nodules? Int J Endocrinol. 2016;2016:3803647.) |
14 |
≥4 |
14.3 |
Albuja-Cruz and cols. (2121 Albuja-Cruz MB, Goldfarb M, Gondek SS, Allan BJ, Lew JI. Reliability of fine-needle aspiration for thyroid nodules greater than or equal to 4 cm. J Surg Res. 2013;181:6-10.) |
113 |
≥4 |
15.0 |
Carrilo and cols. (1515 Carrillo JF, Frias-Mendivil M, Ochoa-Carrillo FJ, Ibarra M. Accuracy of fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the Thyroid combined with an evaluation of clinical and radiologic factors. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2000;122:917-21.) |
35 |
≥4 |
20.0 |
Aydogan and cols. (1616 Aydogan BI, Sahin M, Ceyhan K, Deniz O, Demir Ö, Emral R, et al. The influence of thyroid nodule size on the diagnostic efficacy and accuracy of ultrasound guided fine-needle aspiration cytology. Diagn Cytopathol. 2019;47:682-7.) |
91 |
≥3 |
30.0 |
Present study |
78 |
≥4 |
3.8 |