TY - JOUR AU - Athanasiou, Antonios AU - Spartalis, Michael AU - Spartalis, Eleftherios PY - 2018 TI - Platelets-to-lymphocyte ratio and esophageal cancer JF - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 10, No 8 (August 29, 2018): Journal of Thoracic Disease Y2 - 2018 KW - N2 - We read with great interest the recent publication by Deng et al . (1) published in the March 2018 issue of Journal of Thoracic Disease . The authors have performed a meta-analysis in order to examine the role of platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in the prognosis of esophageal cancer and also to evaluate the relationship with tumor pathological characteristics. UR - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/22688