Area of research
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine · Biomedical Engineering
Research interest
Research topics from publications: Accuracy of neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio and platelet to lymphocyte ratio in predicting node positivity and metastatic disease in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies. Representative work: 462 Background: Accurate predictors of node positivity and metastatic disease for patients with gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies are currently lacking. Neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), and platelet lymphocyte ratio (PLR) have been introduced as a possible prognostic scoring system. We sought to evaluate the accuracy of NLR and PLR in predicting advanced disease in patients with GI malignancies. Methods: We queried a prospective GI oncology database to identify 116 patients. NLR and PLR were calculated from complete blood counts before and after neoadjuvant therapy (NT) and pre-operatively in patients not treated with NT. The associations between NLR and PLR and the clinicopathologic para