Clinical Significance of Preoperative Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio versus Platelet Lymphocyte Ratio in Patients with Small Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus

Table 1

The characteristics of the 43 SCCE patients grouped by NLR and PLR.

	Cases (n, %)	NLR (n)		P value	PLR (n)		P value
		<3.5	≥3.5		<150	≥150
Gender				0.108			0.471
Female	13 (30.2)	11	2		10	3
Male	30 (69.8)	16	14		18	12
Age (years)				0.013			0.126
≤60	24 (55.8)	19	5		18	6
>60	19 (44.2)	8	11		10	9
Tumor length				0.018			0.407
≤3	18 (41.9)	15	3		13	5
>3	25 (58.1)	12	13		15	10
Tumor location				0.847			0.856
Upper/middle	25 (58.1)	16	9		16	9
Lower	18 (41.9)	11	7		12	6
Vessel involvement				0.835			0.993
Negative	33 (76.7)	21	12		22	11
Positive	10 (23.3)	6	4		6	4
Depth of invasion				0.278			0.139
T1-2	18 (41.9)	13	5		14	4
T3-4a	25 (58.1)	14	11		14	11
Nodal metastasis				0.018			0.408
Negative	15 (34.9)	13	2		11	4
Positive	28 (65.1)	14	14		17	11