Research Article
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 |
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The bold data represent statistically significant values.
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