ArticleTranslational cancer research2019
The value of preoperative lymphocytes-to-monocytes ratio in predicting lymph node metastasis in gastric cancer.
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- Fibrinogen-to-Lymphocyte Ratio Was an Independent Predictor of Lymph Node Metastasis in Patients with Clinically Node-Negative Advanced-Stage Gastric Cancer.International journal of general medicine · 2023Article
- A Pilot Study of Prognostic Value of Metastatic Lymph Node Count and Size in Patients with Different Stages of Gastric Carcinoma.Cancer management and research · 2022Article
- Establishment of a nomogram for predicting lymph node metastasis in patients with early gastric cancer after endoscopic submucosal dissection.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- Deaths of colon neuroendocrine tumors are associated with increasing metastatic lymph nodes and lymph node ratio.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundThis study was aimed to evaluate value of preoperative lymphocytes-to-monocytes ratio (LMR) as a predictor for lymph node metastasis in gastric cancer.
methodsPatients with pathologically diagnosed malignant gastric tumor were reviewed retrospectively. Patients' demographic data, clinical manifestations and LMR were collected. The postoperative pathology data including the tumor size, tumor sites, differentiation degree of tumor, depth of tumor invasion, metastatic lymph nodes, total dissected lymph nodes, distant metastasis, vessel carcinoma embolus, neural invasion, Lauren's classification, Ki-67 and TNM stage were collected. Receiver operating characteristic curve (ROC) was used to determine the cut-off point of LMR. The association between LMR and the clinicopathologic factors was further analyzed.
resultsA total of 177 subjects were enrolled into the study. LMR =3.79 was used as cut-off point; the patients with LMR ≥3.79 were classified as high-LMR group (123 cases) and the patients with LMR <3.79 as low-LMR group (54 cases). LMR was an independent risk factor for lymph node metastasis.
conclusionsLow preoperative LMR was positively correlated with lymph node metastasis in gastric cancer patients, and had predictive value for lymph node metastasis in gastric cancer patients.
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