- The common thyroid lesions in male versus female according to cytology.
| Pathological diagnosis | Total number of cases | Female | Male | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percentages | n | % | Percentages | n | % | ||
| Follicular nodule | 535 | 39.5 | 418 | 36.7 | 39.45 | 117 | 54.4 |
| Hashimoto’s thyroiditis | 287 | 21.2 | 266 | 23.4 | 10.2 | 24 | 11.2 |
| Colloid nodule | 159 | 11.8 | 138 | 12.1 | 11.8 | 21 | 9.8 |
| Papillary carcinoma | 138 | 10.2 | 114 | 10.0 | 21.2 | 21 | 9.8 |
| Suspicious for malignancy | 107 | 7.9 | 89 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 18 | 8.4 |
| Inadequate material | 76 | 5.6 | 67 | 5.9 | 5.6 | 9 | 4.2 |
| Cell atypia | 32 | 2.4 | 29 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 3 | 1.4 |
| Follicular neoplasms or suspicious follicular neoplasm | 11 | 0.8 | 10 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Anaplastic carcinoma | 5 | 0.4 | 5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 1 | 0.5 |
| Hürthle cell follicular neoplasm | 3 | 0.2 | 2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Total | 1138 | 100 | 215 | 100 | |||