Differentiating Malignant from Tubercular Pleural Effusion by Cancer Ratio Plus (Cancer Ratio: Pleural Lymphocyte Count)

Table 2

Logistic regression analysis for prediction of malignancy.

Variable	Coefficient	Odds	P value
Pleural ADA	−0.6011	0.54 (0.27–1.08)	0.0861
Serum LDH	0.0484	1.04 (0.99–1.11)	0.1015
Pleural fluid lymphocyte count	−10.224	0	0.1211
Cancer ratio	1.5744	0.20 (0.05–0.78)	0.0209
Serum LDH/pleural fluid lymphocyte count	0.0413	0.95 (0.92–0.99)	0.0474
Cancer ratio/pleural fluid lymphocyte count	1.6536	5.22 (1.35–20.14)	0.0163