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Table 4 The characteristics of the studies

From: Diagnostic accuracy of palpation versus ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy for diagnosis of malignancy in thyroid nodules: a systematic review and meta-analysis

No ID

First author (Publication year)

Country

Research Design

Technique

Subject age (Mean/median [year])

Sample size

Inadequate/ Non-diagnostic

benign

AUS, FLUS, FN (Indeterminant)

Malignancy suspicion, malignancy (Malignant)

1

Takashima et al. (1994) [9]

Japan

Cross Section

PGFNAB

53

34

0

12

0

22

USGFNAB

99

0

32

0

67

2

Hatada et al. (1998) [11]

Japan

Cross Section

PGFNAB

54.7 ± 13.7

94

28

42

0

24

USGFNAB

51.4 ± 16

72

12

37

0

23

3

Danese et al. (1998) [10]

Italy

Cross Section

PGFNAB

43

535

13

307

160

55

USGFNAB

540

5

310

155

70

4

Carmeci et al. (1998) [12]

US

Cross Section

PGFNAB

49.2

47

6

13

7

21

USGFNAB

17

2

1

4

10

5

Solymosi et al. (2001) [23]

Hungary

Cross Section

PGFNAB

N/A

354

37

197

0

120

USGFNAB

420

40

302

0

78

6

Goudy et al. (2005) [13]

US

Cross Section

PGFNAB

55.4

20

2

12

2

4

USGFNAB

11

0

4

6

1

7

Cesur et al. (2006) [14]

Turkey

Cross Section

PGFNAB

48.7 ± 13.5

26

8

11

3

4

USGFNAB

26

4

14

4

4

8

Izquierdo et al. (2006) [15]

US

Perspective Cohort

PGFNAB

48.6 ± 17

23

0

11

5

7

USGFNAB

 

5

0

1

3

1

9

Can et al. (2008) [16]

Turkey

Cross Section

PGFNAB

40 ± 12

18

3

12

1

2

USGFNAB

44 ± 14

23

1

11

6

5

10

Krishnappa et al. (2013) [17]

India

Cross Section

PGFNAB

38.5

25

0

15

0

10

USGFNAB

 

25

0

15

0

10

11

Guo et al. (2015) [18]

China

Cross Section

PGFNAB

44

101

2

27

72

USGFNAB

 

388

8

57

323

12

Sharma et al. (2017) [19]

India

Cross Section

PGFNAB

36.4

49

0

38

7

4

USGFNAB

36

80

0

74

3

3

13

Choong et al. (2018) [7]

US

Cross Section

PGFNAB

51.5

1199

60

725

285

129

USGFNAB

53.6

1123

50

639

286

148

14

Taha et al. (2020) [5]

Qatar

Cross Section

PGFNAB

46.3 ± 11.7

570

98

398

52

140

USGFNAB

 

392

51

215

58

146

  1. Penjelasan dari AUS, FLUS, FN