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BACKGROUND: Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has become one of the most useful modalities for diagnosis and staging of lymphoma. However, diagnostic accuracy of this technique has been reported with varying results across several studies around the world. Hence, this meta-analysis was done to assess the accuracy of FNAC for lymphoma diagnosis. METHODS: We conducted a systematic search for all studies reporting the diagnostic accuracy of FNAC for lymphoma in the databases of PubMed Central, MEDLINE, EMBASE, MEDLINE, SCOPUS and Cochrane library from inception till January 2021. Meta-analysis was performed using STATA software "midas" package. RESULTS: statistic >75%. There was significant publication bias as per Deek's test and funnel plot. CONCLUSION: To summarize, our study found that FNAC has a vital role as a diagnostic tool for lymphoma with higher sensitivity and specificity. Further studies assessing the accuracy of FNAC on specific types of lymphoma is required.
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