ALB and malnutrition: Serum albumin level has been regarded as a good index of malnutrition in a wide variety of patient populations,[7,19] and the TLC has been considered as a helpful indicator of systemic inflammatory status.[3] Thus, we believed that the preoperative PNI, which reflected both nutritional and inflammatory status, could be used to predict the development of SSIs in GI patients undergoing intestinal resections.