Pre-treatment Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio as a predictor for occult cervical metastasis in early stage (T1-T2 cN0) squamous cell carcinoma of the oral tongue.

Vincenzo Abbate,Giovanni Dell'Aversana Orabona,Giovanni Salzano,Paola Bonavolontà,Fabio Maglitto,Antonio Romano,Filippo Tarabbia,Mario Turri-Zanoni,Federica Attanasi, Alessandro Espedito Di Lauro,Giorgio Iaconetta,Luigi Califano

Surgical Oncology（2018）

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Abstract

•NLR it is useful to identify patients at highest risk for neck occult metastasis.•Significant relationship between NLR increments and occult metastatic node was found.•2.93 NLR value appears to be very close to the inflexion point of our curve.•2.93 NLR correspond to a 49.91% probability value of occult metastases in cN0 patients.

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Oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma,NLR,Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio,Pre-treatment hematological marker,Occult metastasis

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