A prospective comparative clinical study of peripheral blood counts and indices in patients with primary brain tumors.

J Postgrad Med · 2016 · PMC4944356 · PMID 27089106

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in their study found that an NLR>4 was an independent prognostic factor in patients with glioblastoma.[ 5 ] In this study, we found that the NLR in patients with intraaxial tumors was elevated compared to the control group (trend toward significance, P = 0.05).

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The NLR in the tumor group was elevated (2.44 ± 1.9) compared to the control group (1.97 ± 0.8); this elevation showed a trend toward statistical significance (t = -0.23, P = 0.051).

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