Platelet counts still revealed an obvious trend when the presence of CTM was observed, using two-sample Wilcoxon rank-sum tests due to the small sample size), although there was no significant difference.
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Isolation of circulating tumor cells in patients undergoing surgery for esophageal cancer and a specific confirmation method.
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Similarly, the present study did not indicate a significant correlation between CTC detection with NLR, PLR or platelet count, but these three parameters displayed a positive trend for association with CTC positivity compared with CTC negativity.