Table 1_The correlation between fine needle aspiration diagnosis and postoperative histopa

Xue Bai's dataset contains a retrospective analysis of 696 pediatric patients who underwent ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration for thyroid nodules between 2017 and 2024. The data correlates cytological results classified by the Bethesda System with postoperative histopathological findings from 246 surgically resected cases. It includes molecular testing results for mutations such as BRAF V600E and calculates risk of malignancy across diagnostic categories.

Use Cases

• Validate diagnostic accuracy of the Bethesda System based on reported sensitivity and specificity metrics.
• Analyze risk of malignancy progression across cytological categories based on the provided ROM-C and ROM-H percentages.
• Study molecular marker prevalence in pediatric thyroid cancer based on reported BRAF V600E, RET, and TERT mutation rates.

Strengths

• Includes data from 696 pediatric patients, providing a substantial cohort for analysis.
• Correlates cytology with histopathology for 246 operated cases, offering ground-truth validation.
• Incorporates molecular testing results for multiple genetic markers mentioned in the description.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Retrospective analysis of patient records.

Time Range

2017-2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 04:18:57; freshness should be verified.