Brown-Sequard-Plus syndrome with features of Autonomic Dysreflexia and Horner’s syndrome caused by blunt trauma

Results • An accurate, time efficient, and inexpensiveprognostic indicator is needed to reduce cost andassist with clinical decision making for cancermanagement.• The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR),which is derived from common serum testing, hasbeen explored in a variety of cancers.• We sought to determine its prognostic value ingastrointestinal cancers by performing a meta-analysis of pertinent published literature.• We analyzed 144 studies comprising 45,905patients; 2/3 were published after 2014.• The mean, median, and mode cutoffs for NLRreporting OS from multivariate models were 3.4,3.0, and 5.0, respectively.• Overall, NLR greater than the cutoff wasassociated with a HR for OS of 1.63.• This association was observed in all subgroupsbased on tumor site, stage, and geographicregion.