Pre-operative neutrophil count and neutrophil-lymphocyte count ratio (NLCR) in predicting the histological grade of paediatric brain tumours: a preliminary study.

Acta Neurochir (Wien) · 2018 · PMC5859055 · PMID 29188366

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failed to achieve significancep = 0.069so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Pooled analysis of high-grade tumour patients demonstrates a significant increase in the pre-operative NC when compared to the low-grade patients ( p = 0.0013), but this just failed to achieve significance with the NLCR ( p = 0.069).

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