Endocrine Regulations (Jul 2017)

Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) may be superior to C-reactive protein (CRP) for predicting the occurrence of differentiated thyroid cancer

  • Ozmen S,
  • Timur O,
  • Calik I,
  • Altinkaynak K,
  • Simsek E,
  • Gozcu H,
  • Arslan A,
  • Carlioglu A

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/enr-2017-0013
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 51, no. 3
pp. 131 – 136

Abstract

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Objectives. NLR (neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio) and PLR (platelet-lymphocyte ratio) are prognostic markers of differentiated thyroid cancers. In our study, we evaluated NLR, PLR and C-reactive protein (CRP) for predicting the occurence of differentiated thyroid cancer. This is the first study that compares NLR and PLR to C-reactive protein indifferantiated thyroid cancer not only papillary cancer but also folliculer cancer.

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