title: [Significance of Perioperative Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio(NLR)in Gastric Cancer and Colon Cancer].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  We examined the significance of neutrophil lymphocyte ratio(NLR)in gastric cancer and colon cancer in the perioperative period.
  
  
  METHODS
  There were 46 patients(21 with gastric cancer and 25 with colon cancer). We examined the association between preoperative NLR and other indicators of nutritional status, as well as the relationship between preoperative NLR and the incidence of postoperative complications(all complications/infectious complications).
  
  
  RESULTS
  NLR was higher in those with zinc<65 mg, prognostic nutritional index(PNI)≤40, and modified Glasgow prognostic score(mGPS)of 2 (p<0.05). NLR showed no difference among all patients with complications(12 cases), but was higher in patients with infectious complications(p<0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Preoperative NLR is correlated with PNI as a predictor of infectious complications.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Surgery, Tokyo Women's Medical University Medical Center East.
authors.forename: Masano
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authors.lastname: Naritaka
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D008214:Lymphocytes; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009504:Neutrophils; D009752:Nutritional Status; D059035:Perioperative Period; D011379:Prognosis; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery