From: Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration versus non-aspiration techniques in the evaluation of solid thyroid nodules
Total sample quality score
Technique
FNAC
FNNAC
Mean
± S.D
de Carvalho et al., [12]
7.94
2.84
7.96
2.81
Kashi et al., [5]
6
2.17
5.76
2.3
Mahajan et al., [14]
6.16
2.8531
6.84
3.3749
Pinki et al., [11]
5.42
2.113
7.1
1.761
Torabizadeh et al., 2008
5.82
5.7
2.4