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

Table 5

Mean or median NLR values in studies on PTC (N/R not reported).

Name	Year	Number of PTC cases	NLR (mean or median)	Range
Liu et al. [3]	2012	159	1.94	1.50–2.57
Seretis et al. [2]	2013	52	3 in PTMC; 3.4 in PTC	N/R
Kim et al. [5]	2013	542	1.74	N/R
Lang et al. [6]	2014	191	2.68	0.52–16.6
Liu et al. [4]	2015	321	1.99 in <45 years; 2.28 in >45 years	0.4–8.58
Cho et al. [8]	2015	3364	1.86	0.28–16.29
Kocer et al. [16]	2015	65	2.47 with thyroiditis; 2.57 without thyroiditis	N/R
Kim et al. [15]	2015	1066	1.75 in <45 years; 1.52 in ≥45 years	0.25–10.20
Gong et al. [14]	2016	161	2	0.64–6.38
Yaylaci et al. [7]	2016	41	1.9	N/R
Manatakis et al.		205	2.44	0.86–6.14