Association of Baseline Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Clinicopathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Table 3

Comparison of prevalence of prognostic factors in the low and high NLR subgroups.

	Low NLR (<2.17)	High NLR (>2.17)	value
N	102	103
Sex
Male	25 (24.5%)	30 (29.1%)
Female	77 (75.5%)	73 (70.9%)	0.46
Age (years)	52.74 ± 13.18	51.15 ± 15.45	0.24
Specimen weight (gr)	26.01 ± 18.24	38.52 ± 43.39	0.009
Tumour size (cm)	0.95 ± 0.69	1.30 ± 1.43	0.38
Extrathyroidal; invasion	20 (19.6%)	23 (22.3%)	0.63
Lymph node; metastasis	3 (2.9%)	12 (11.7%)	0.03
Multifocality	43 (42.1%)	48 (46.6%)	0.52
Bilaterality	30 (29.4%)	35 (33.9%)	0.48
Thyroiditis	52 (50.9%)	65 (63.1%)	0.08
Follicular variant	68 (66.7%)	67 (65%)	0.81
T stage
T1a + T1b	75 (73.5%)	69 (67%)
T2 + T3	27 (26.5%)	34 (33%)	0.31

The bold data represent statistically significant values.