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SUBMITTER: Suner A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7501491 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) 20200906
<h4>Background</h4>Inflammation is a recognized concomitant of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and its indices are prognostically useful.<h4>Aims</h4>To evaluate two commonly used inflammatory indices, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and the platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), to examine their relationship to maximum tumor diameter (MTD) and to survival.<h4>Methods</h4>A database of 1024 prospectively-accrued HCC patients was examined, who had full baseline tumor parameter data, including CT ...[more]