Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio in Small Renal Masses

Table 2

(a) Bivariable analysis of baseline characteristics as independent predictors of preoperative NLR. (b) Spearman correlation coefficients between additional pathological features and NLR.

(a)

Characteristic	Mean preoperative NLR (SD)	𝑃 value
Age	2.8 (1.4)	< 𝟎.𝟎𝟏^a
Gender		< 𝟎.𝟎𝟏^b
Male	3.0 (1.4)
Female	2.6 (1.3)
Race		< 𝟎.𝟎𝟏^b
Caucasian	2.9 (1.4)
African American	1.9 (0.9)
Other	2.7 (1.6)
ASA score		0.18^b
I-II	2.8 (1.4)
III-IV	2.9 (1.5)
Preoperative Crea	2.8 (1.4)	< 𝟎.𝟎𝟏^a
Preoperative eGFR	2.8 (1.4)	< 𝟎.𝟎𝟏^a
Pathology		0.75^b
Benign	2.9 (1.4)
Malignant	2.8 (1.3)
Pathological subtypes		0.34^b
Benign
Oncocytoma	2.9 (1.4)
Angiomyolipoma	2.8 (1.4)
Other benign	2.7 (1.2)
Malignant
Conventional RCC	2.8 (1.3)
Papillary RCC	3.1 (1.7)
Chromophobe RCC	2.5 (1.1)
Cystic RCC	3.1 (2.3)
Unclassified RCC	2.5 (1.3)
Other malignant	2.3 (0.9)

aMeasure of association by Spearman correlation.
^bMeasure of association by Kruskal-Wallis test.

(b)

	𝜌	𝑃 value
Age	0.15	< 𝟎.𝟎𝟏
Preoperative Crea	0.13	< 𝟎.𝟎𝟏
Preoperative eGFR	−0.13	< 𝟎.𝟎𝟏