The overall diagnostic accuracy of FNAC of cervical lymph nodes was 82.2% while the overall discordance rate was 17.8%. The evaluation of FNA in patients with no previously diagnosed malignancy should be interpreted by an experienced cytopathologist in the context of clinical, radiological, and laboratory finding and if any of these findings is suspicious, further investigation is justified to overcome the limitations and pitfalls of the cytomorphological features when applied alone.
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