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	A '''waffle diagnosis''' is something used to say "I don't know". It is used when a pathologist cannot decide whether something is benign ''or'' suspicious for malignant.<ref name=pmid19373907>{{cite journal \|author=Layfield LJ, Morton MJ, Cramer HM, Hirschowitz S \|title=Implications of the proposed thyroid fine-needle aspiration category of "follicular lesion of undetermined significance": A five-year multi-institutional analysis \|journal=Diagn. Cytopathol. \|volume=37 \|issue=10 \|pages=710–4 \|year=2009 \|month=October \|pmid=19373907 \|doi=10.1002/dc.21093 \|url=}}</ref>		A '''waffle diagnosis''', also '''waffle category''', is something used to say "I don't know". It is used when a pathologist cannot decide whether something is benign ''or'' suspicious for malignant.<ref name=pmid19373907>{{cite journal \|author=Layfield LJ, Morton MJ, Cramer HM, Hirschowitz S \|title=Implications of the proposed thyroid fine-needle aspiration category of "follicular lesion of undetermined significance": A five-year multi-institutional analysis \|journal=Diagn. Cytopathol. \|volume=37 \|issue=10 \|pages=710–4 \|year=2009 \|month=October \|pmid=19373907 \|doi=10.1002/dc.21093 \|url=}}</ref>

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