Abstract
For establishing whether thyroid lesions are benign or malignant, fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is currently the gold standard. However, about 30% of all FNA samples are diagnosed as indeterminate for malignancy and often prompting diagnostic hemithyroidectomy. From those, 15-30% are in fact malignant, and most of them prove to be follicular thyroid cancer (FTC) and follicular va…