Table 1 Charateristics of the included studies.

From: The evaluation of monocyte lymphocyte ratio as a preoperative predictor in urothelial malignancies: a pooled analysis based on comparative studies

First author(year)

Design

geographical region

Cases number

diagnosis

therapy

Cut-off value

Outcome

Analysis methods

NOS score

Temraz S, et al.(2014)

Retrospective

Asian

68

UCB

RC

0.36a,0.35b

DFS,OS

K

6

Hutterer GC, et al.(2015)

Retrospective

Australasian

182

UUTUC

RNU

0.50

OS

M

8

Zhang GB, et al.(2015)

Retrospective

Asian

124

UCB

RC

0.25

OS

U

7

Yoshida T, et al.(2015)

Retrospective

Asian

181

UCB

RC

0.28

OS

M

8

Bhindi B, et al.(2016)

Retrospective

North American

418

UCB

RC

per 1-log unitc

RFS,CSS,OS

U

7

Song X, et al.(2016)

Retrospective

Asian

140

UUTUC

RNU

0.28

DFS,PFS

M

7

D’Andrea D, et al.(2017)

Retrospective

European

4198

UCB

RC

0.29

RFS,CSS,OS

M

8

Altan M, et al.(2017)

Retrospective

Asian

113

UUTUC

RNU

0.34

DFS,PFS

M

6

Miyake M, et al.(2017)

Retrospective

Asian

117

UCB

RC

0.3

OS,DSS

U

7

Rajwa P, et al.(2018)

Retrospective

European

144

UCB

RC

0.41

OS,CSS

M

8

Jan HC, et al.(2018)

Retrospective

Asian

424

UUTUC

RNU

0.4

OS,CSS,PFS

M

8

Zhang XK, et al.(2018)

Retrospective

Asian

100

UUTUC

RNU

0.33

OS

M

8

  1. UUTUC: upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma; UCB: urothelial carcinoma of bladder; OS: overall survival; DFS: disease free survival; RFS: recurrence free survival; CSS: cancer specific survival; PFS: progression free survival; RNU: radical nephroureterectomy; RC: radical cystectomy; M: multivariate analysis; U:univariate analysis; K: Kaplan-meier curve; a: cut-off value for OS; b: cut-off value for DFS; c: Log-transformed.