Evaluation of Corneal Stromal Demarcation Line after Two Different Protocols of Accelerated Corneal Collagen Cross-Linking Procedures Using Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography and Confocal Microscopy

Table 1

Evaluation of the parameters between groups.

Characteristics	Group 1	Group 2
	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
	17	17
Gender
Male/female	11/6	8/9	^20.490
Age, year			0.352
K1 (D)			0.168
K2 (D)			0.372
Kaverage (D)			0.312
Cylindrical value (D)			0.780
Kapex (D)			0.664
Central Corneal
Thickness (μm)
Depth of demarcation line (μm)
AS-OCT			0.001^**
Confocal microscopy			0.001^**

Student’s -test; continuity (Yates) correction.
SD: standard deviation, : number of the patients, K: keratometry, D: diopter, μm: micrometer, and CYL: cylindrical values.
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