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) |
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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 |