• Medicine · Feb 2024

    Evaluation of the correlation of neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio with prognostic classification systems in papillary thyroid carcinoma patients.

    • Eren Ozan Yildiz, Kutay Işcen, Feyza Kaya, Onur Alptekin Güney, and Suat Can Ulukent.
    • Department of General Surgery, Samandağ State Hospital, Hatay, Turkiye.
    • Medicine (Baltimore). 2024 Feb 2; 103 (5): e37210e37210.

    AbstractWe aimed to evaluate the use of cost-effective NLR (Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio) in determining the prognosis and recurrence risk of thyroid papillary carcinoma patients. This retrospective, cross-sectional and single-center study was carried out in the Department of General Surgery, Istanbul Gaziosmanpaşa Training and Research Hospital. Between 2018 and 2021, who were diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer and underwent total thyroidectomy, and patients who underwent total thyroidectomy due to multinodular goiter were analyzed. For patients in the malignancy group, the NLR cutoff value was determined as 1.73, the sensitivity was calculated as 51.77% and the specificity as 86.15%. NLR in the malignant group was found to be 9.5 times higher than the NLR in the control group (Odds Ratio: 9.5). A statistically significant difference was found between NLR and papillary thyroid carcinoma prognostic classification systems (AJCC/TNM, AMES, and MACIS). NLR medians differ according to ATA recurrence risk classification (P = .020). According to the results we obtained in our study, we believe that cost-effective NLR can be a useful indicator in terms of predicting malignancy in a patient with thyroid nodule and in determining the prognosis and risk of recurrence in patients with thyroid papillary carcinoma.Copyright © 2024 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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