Clinical Study

Corneal Backscatter Analysis by In Vivo Confocal Microscopy: Fellow Eye Comparison of Small Incision Lenticule Extraction and Femtosecond Laser-Assisted LASIK

Table 2

Maximum backscattered light intensity in anterior stroma.

SMILE ( )Femto-LASIK ( )
Mean (SU) ± SDMean (SU) ± SD

Preoperative 0.020
Week 1*
Month 1*
Month 3*
Month 6

number of patients; SU: scatter units; SD: standard deviation.
: the difference between the two groups in the change from baseline.