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. 2023 Mar 2;15(3):e35705. doi: 10.7759/cureus.35705

Table 2. Comparison of the patients who died and who are alive.

NLR: neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio; SII: systemic immune-inflammation index

  Group 1 (Dead, N=12) Group 2 (Alive, N=34) p-value
Gender (Male) 7 (58.8%) 18 (52.9%) 0.747
Age (months) 71.74 (22.16-169.05) 52.48 (4.1-134.1) 0.140
Ultrasonography (≤5 cm) 7 (58.3 %) 17 (50%) 0.619
CT (≤5 cm) 5 (41.7%) 16 (47.1%) 0.747
PET (SUV max≤2.6) 3 (12%) 12 (75%) 0.136
Histopathology differentiated - 5 (14.7%) 0.201
Undifferentiated + poorly differentiated 3 (25%) 15 (44%)
Unknown 8 (66.7%) 12 (35.3%)
Intermixed 1 (8.3%) 2 (5.8%)
Stage (Early 1,2) 0 (0%) 7 (20.6%) 0.708
Metastasis (Present) 9 (75%) 20 (58.8%) 0.318
Lymph node involvement (Present) 3 (25%) 8 (23.5%) 0.667
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (Present) 12 (100%) 24 (70.6%) 0.034
Lymphocyte number 4027 (1880-6170) 4518 (940-7630) 0.444
Neutrophil number 4428 (2520-6380) 4229 (1170-8430) 0.294
Platelet number 297.33 (22-890) 359.1 (33-664) 0.406
NLR 2.71 (1.22-4.1) 1.7 (0.16-5.1) 0.02
SII 677.8 (215-1322) 294.6 (69.49-799.1) 0.012
Ferritin (ng/ml) 249 (91.6-384) 219.6 (9-787) 0.412