BACKGROUND: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) as a diagnostic technique has gained valuable recognition in the last decade, as this is the best way to obtain a tissue with minimal trauma to patients. This technique is often complicated by aspiration of significant quantity of blood. To deal with this problem, an alternative technique of fine needle sampling without aspiration was developed, also known as CYTOPUNCTURE or fine needle capillary sampling (FNC). Present study was conducted to evaluate the accuracy of FNAC versus FNC. This was a retrospective study conducted in Rama Medical College Hospital And Research Centre,Mandhana, Kanpur, comprising of 51 patients both OPD and IPD