“…The included studies had a total of 6490 FNAs with ITN cytology with molecular diagnostics (GEC, GSC, TSv2, and TSv3). The detailed characteristics of the included studies ( 9 , 10 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 , 70 , 71 , 72 , 73 , 74 , 75 , 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 , 80 , 81 , 82 , 83 , 84 , 85 , 86 ) are given in Supplementary Table 3. According to the QUADAS-2 tool ( 24 , 25 ), the methodological quality of the included trials was acceptable ( Fig.…”