Clinical Study
Cytomorphometric Characteristics of Buccal Mucosal Cells in Behçet’s Disease Patients
Table 2
Comparison of the cytomorphometric parameters and the presence of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNL) in Behçet’s disease and control groups.
| Cytomorphometric parameters
Median (range) | Behçet’s disease group () | Control group
() | value |
| | Nuclear area (m2) | 143.5
(13.9–697.4) | 369.2
(53.4–998.5) | <0.001 | | Cytoplasmic area (m2) | 5734.1
(1461.4–9968.7) | 13688.5
(4093.8–44469.3) | <0.001 | | Nucleus/cytoplasm ratio | 0.03
(0.005–0.11) | 0.03
(0.004–0.12) | 0.475 | | NRF | 0.94
(0.70–0.98) | 0.89
(0.38–0.98) | <0.001 | | NL (µm) | 16.1
(4.5–35.5) | 26.8
(9.9–46.2) | <0.001 | | NW (µm) | 12.0
(4.3–26.2) | 19.2
(6.3–35.8) | <0.001 | | NP (µm) | 44.3
(13.5–83.3) | 72.3
(26.8–122.1) | <0.001 | | PMNL | | | | | Present | 3 | 9 | 0.53 | | Absent | 27 | 21 |
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Nuclear roundness factor, nuclear length, nuclear width, nuclear perimeter, Pearson chi-squared test, and Mann-Whitney test.
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