Evaluation of mean platelet volume and neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio as a diagnostic indicator in patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis

Diagnostic Significance of Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio in Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

“…Eventually, we included 13 papers [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] in our systematic review and meta-analysis, after eliminating duplicates and irrelevant records. The detailed process of inclusion and exclusion is presented in Figure 1, which shows the PRISMA flow diagram.…”

“…In total, 13 articles, including 1239 patients with RAS and 1167 healthy controls, were included in the analysis [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28].…”

“…Eleven of them were written in English [16,17,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27], one in Arabic [28] and one in Turkish [18]. There were seven retrospective studies [16][17][18]21,[25][26][27] and six prospective studies [19,20,[22][23][24]28].…”

“…Eleven of them were written in English [16,17,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27], one in Arabic [28] and one in Turkish [18]. There were seven retrospective studies [16][17][18]21,[25][26][27] and six prospective studies [19,20,[22][23][24]28]. All of them were conducted in Turkey except for one study which was conducted in Syria [28].…”