Table 1.
Systemic inflammation-based prognostic scores.
Figure 1.
An example of CT image analysis using NIH ImageJ software.
(a) the original CT image in JPEG format, (b) the scale is set using a known distance (10 cm) from the original CT image, (c) skeletal muscle thresholds (−29 to+150 HU) are applied, (d) the abdominal contents and L3 vertebrae are cropped and the skeletal muscle cross sectional area calculated in cm2.
Figure 2.
Flow chart representing the study selection process.
* All patients undergoing potentially curative resection of colorectal cancer Janueary 1st 2003 and December 31st 2010. † No CT scan stored in an electronic format suitable for image analysis.
Table 2.
Clinicopathological characteristics of patients with primary operable colorectal cancer.
Table 3.
Body composition parameters of patients with primary operable colorectal cancer.
Table 4.
The relationships between parameters of body composition and measures of the systemic inflammatory response in patients with primary operable colorectal cancer.
Figure 3.
Scatterplots of the associations between C-reactive protein, albumin and skeletal muscle index.
Fit lines are shown for male (____) and female (––-) patients. r = Pearsons correlation coefficient for all patients.
Table 5.
The relationship between skeletal muscle index and clinico-pathological characteristics in patients with primary operable colorectal cancer.
Figure 4.
The relationship between B.M.I. classification and skeletal muscle index in male (top panel) and female (bottom panel) patients with primary operable colorectal cancer.
Dashed lines represent cutoff values of the sex-specific tertiles.