Performance of the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio as a predictor of severity and mortality in children and adolescents with traumatic brain injury.
José Roberto Tude MeloMelina Houlis Hao MasiniJean Gonçalves DE OliveiraJosé Carlos Esteves VeigaPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2024)
NLR can be considered a biomarker of brain injury in children and adolescent victims of TBI. Patients with NLR ≥ 3 had a fivefold higher probability of severe TBI and patients with NLR ≥ 11 experienced a ninefold higher risk of death.