ORIGINAL RESEARCH
The Prognostic Importance of the Systemic Inflammatory Index in Pathologies of the Larynx
Larinks Patolojilerinde Sistemik İnflamatuar İndeksin Prognostik Önemi
Received Date : 30 Oct 2022
Accepted Date : 24 Apr 2023
Available Online : 27 Apr 2023
Muhammet Fatih TOPUZa, Zuhal ZEYBEK SİVASb, Nurullah TÜREb, Fatih OĞHANc
aDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Çamlıca Medipol University Hospital, İstanbul, Türkiye
bDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Kütahya Health Sciences University Evliya Çelebi Training and Research Hospital, Kütahya, Türkiye
cDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology. Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydınlar University Eskişehir Hospital, Eskişehir, Türkiye
Doi: 10.24179/kbbbbc.2022-94083 - Makale Dili: EN
KBB ve BBC Dergisi. 2023;31(3):129-34
Copyright © 2020 by Turkey Association of Society of Ear Nose Throat and Head Neck Surgery. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
ABSTRACT
Objective: This study aimed to determine the prognostic
importance of the preoperative systemic immune-inflammatory
index (SII) in laryngeal lesions and to investigate its predictive importance
compared to the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and plateletlymphocyte
ratio (PLR). Material and Methods: Retrospective
comparisons were made between the preoperative blood parameters
(NLR, PLR, and SII) and clinicopathological features of 133 patients
who underwent surgery for a localized laryngeal lesions between
01.03.2010-31.06.2021. Receiver-operating characteristic analysis was
used to calculate the cut-off value of the SII. Results: Of the 133 patients
with laryngeal lesions, 81 (60.9%) had benign lesions, 20 (15%)
had premalignant lesions, and 32 (24.1%) had malignant pathology results.
The mean SII value was determined to gradually increase in the
order of benign, premalignant and malignant pathology (444.36;
525.69; 738.07, respectively). A statistically significant difference was
found between the SII values of the groups classified as benign, premalignant,
and malignant according to laryngeal pathologies (p<0.001).
A statistically significant moderate-level correlation of approximately
35% was determined between the benign, premalignant, and malignant
pathology results and SII, between the pathology results and NLR at
36%, and with PLR at 29%. Conclusion: A significant relationship was
observed between the tendency of the disease and malignancy in laryngeal
pathologies and the SII. This significant relationship was also
determined by NLR and PLR. In this context, the SII was evaluated as
an inexpensive, routine screening test that can be used to evaluate the
prognosis of patients with laryngeal pathology.
Keywords: Laryngeal pathology; laryngeal cancer; systemic inflammatory index
ÖZET
Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı, larenks lezyonlarında preoperatif
sistemik inflamatuar indeksin [systemic immune-inflammatory index
(SII)] prognostik önemini belirlemek ve nötrofil-lenfosit oranı [neutrophil-
lymphocyte ratio (NLR)] ve trombosit-lenfosit oranına [platelet-
lymphocyte ratio (PLR)] göre prediktif önemini araştırmaktır. Gereç
ve Yöntemler: 01.03.2010-31.06.2021 tarihleri arasında, lokalize laringeal
lezyon nedeniyle ameliyat edilen 133 hastanın ameliyat öncesi
kan parametreleri (NLR, PLR ve SII) ve klinikopatolojik özellikleri retrospektif
olarak karşılaştırıldı. Alıcı-işlem karakteristiği analizi SII’nın
cut-off değerini hesaplamak için kullanılmıştır. Bulgular: Larenks lezyonu
olan 133 hastada yapılan çalışmada 81 (%60,9) hastada benign, 20
(%15) hastada premalign ve 32 (%24,1) hastada malign patoloji sonucu
saptandı. Ortalama SII değerinin benign, premalign ve malign patoloji
sırasına göre giderek arttığı gözlenmiştir (sırasıyla 444,36; 525,69;
738,07). Laringeal patolojilere göre benign, premalign ve malign olarak
sınıflandırılan grupların SII değerleri arasında istatistiksel olarak
anlamlı bir fark bulundu (p<0,001). Benign, premalign ve malign patoloji
sonuçları ile SII arasında pozitif yönde yaklaşık %35 (orta); NLR
arasında yaklaşık %36 (orta) ve PLR ile %29 (orta) oranında istatistiksel
olarak anlamlı bir korelasyon vardı. Sonuç: Larenks patolojilerinde
hastalığın maligniteye eğilimi ile SII arasında anlamlı bir ilişki
olduğu gözlendi. Bu anlamlı ilişki NLR ve PLR arasında da vardı. Bu
bağlamda SII, larenks patolojisi olan hastaların prognozunu değerlendirmek
için kullanılabilecek ucuz, rutin bir tarama testi olarak değerlendirildi.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Larenks patolojisi; larenks kanseri; sistemik inflamatuar indeks
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