Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 3 Mean scores for sample quality criteria

From: Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration versus non-aspiration techniques in the evaluation of solid thyroid nodules

	FNAC		FNNAC		P-value
	Mean	± S.D.	Mean	± S.D.
Background blood	1.979	0.79	1.938	0.78	0.755
Cellular yield	1.604	0.76	1.9375	0.70	0.012
Cellular trauma	2.271	0.84	2.58	0.61	0.038
Cellular architecture	1.85	0.82	2.33	0.72	0.003
Total score	7.708	2.24	8.792	1.74	0.011

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