This was a retrospective cross-sectional evaluation of 115 archived samples, including: 47 benign (29 follicular adenoma, 11 diffuse hyperplasia, four thyroiditis, and three multinodular goiter), six follicular thyroid carcinomas (FTC), 24 follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinomas (fvPTC), 27 classic variant of PTC (cPTC), eight diffuse sclerosing variant of PTC (dsvPTC), and three other PTC.
From the PTC patients, one had MNG and fvPTC, one MNG, lymphocytic thyroiditis and papillary pattern of PTC, one lymphocytic thyroiditis and fvPTC, and one MNG and papillary pattern of PTC.