From: Ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration versus non-aspiration techniques in the evaluation of solid thyroid nodules
Degree of cellular trauma
Technique
FNAC
FNNAC
Mean
± S.D
de Carvalho et al., [12]
1.7
0.61
1.74
0.55
Ghosh et al., [15]
1.07
0.474
1.357
0.497
Kashi et al., [5]
0.98
0.58
0.93
0.62
Mahajan et al., [14]
1.48
0.7141
1.52
0.7703
Pinki et al., [11]
1.32
0.584
0.85
0.479