Results 195 patients (n¼195, males 65%, mean age 58.6) underwent mediastinal EUS-FNA during the study period. Mean size of the lesions was 15.82 mm (range 3.9e43) in short axis and 28.23 mm (range 8e60) in long axis. Sub-carinal lymph nodes (LN) were the commonest (145/195, 70.3%) target lesions. Mean number of needle pass was 3.18 (range 1e6) and 22G (53.5%) was the commonest needle used. There were no procedure related complications or deaths. Of the 195 patients, FNAs were positive for

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... ancy in 61 (61/195, 31.2%), sarcoidosis in 40 (20.5%) and tuberculosis (TB) in 15 (7.6%) patients. Of the 64 (31.7%) cases where FNA was reported normal, 42 (65.6%) were accurate and 22 (34.3%) were inaccurate (final diagnosis: 8 cancer, 9 sarcoidosis and 5 TB). In 4 (2%) patients, FNA showed other diagnoses (3 anthracotic LNs, 1 sinus histiocytosis). Abstract PWE-221 table 1 Overall and condition specific results of mediastinal EUS-FNA.