Association of Baseline Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Clinicopathological Characteristics of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma.

Int J Endocrinol · 2017 · PMC5441114 · PMID 28572821

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Although we observed a tendency towards higher NLR in larger tumours (especially >4.1 cm), this difference did not reach statistical significance.

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both showed a trend towards lower NLR values in PTC cases with concurrent chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis [ 3 , 16 ].

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