Yoshitaka Itami, Makito Miyake, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Daisuke Gotoh, Shunta Hori, Yousuke Morizawa, Kota Iida, Kenta Ohnishi, Yasushi Nakai, Takeshi Inoue, Satoshi Anai, Nobumichi Tanaka, Keiji Shimada, Shuya Hirao, Kiyohide Fujimoto
OBJECTIVE: The present study evaluated the clinical relevance of an integrative preoperative assessment of inflammation-, nutrition-, and muscle-based markers for patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) undergoing curative nephroureterectomy (NUx). METHODS: The study enrolled 125 patients and the preoperative variables assessed included age, body mass index, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio (MLR), platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio (PLR), serum fibrinogen level (Fib), C-reactive protein (CRP), modified Glasgow prognostic score, serum albumin level (Alb), prognostic nutritional index (PNI), skeletal muscle index (SMI), psoas muscle index (PMI), and peak expiratory flow (PEF)...
January 2, 2019: International Journal of Clinical Oncology