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Table 3 FNA performance per cytology group

From: The diagnostic application of RNA sequencing in patients with thyroid cancer: an analysis of 851 variants and 133 fusions in 524 genes

Performance on AUS/FLUS (n = 12)

Genetic alteration

Histology malignant (n = 1)

Histology benign (n = 11)

Positive

0

1

Negative

1

10

  1. Sensitivity, 0 % (0–98); Specificity, 91 % (59–100); PPV, 16 % (4–45); NPV, 93 % (87–97), prevalence of malignant lesions, 8 %. Estimated performance when malignancy is prevalent at 24 %: PPV, 40 % (12–74); NPV, 81 % (66–90)
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BMC Bioinformatics

ISSN: 1471-2105

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