In Vivo Confocal Microscopy of Cornea in Patients with Terrien’s Marginal Corneal Degeneration

Table 5

Correlation analysis of the density of corneal cells and epithelial nerve fibers in patients at stages I, II, III, and IV (M ± Q).

Staging	Case	Density of corneal cells and epithelial nerve fibers
		Epithelium	Anterior stroma	Medium stroma	Deep stroma	Endothelium	Subepithelial nerve fibers
Stage I	3	5329.0 ± 1025.0	258.5 ± 756.0	257.5 ± 529.0	250.0 ± 529.0	2819.0 ± 349.0	8045.9 ± 14435.1
Stage II	3	4847.5 ± 1275.0	0.0 ± 274.0	0.0 ± 253.0	0.0 ± 0.0	2654.0 ± 544.0	0.0 ± 1427.7
Stage III	2	4611.5 ± 1341.0	0.0 ± 231.0	0.0 ± 250.0	0.0 ± 0.0	2462.0 ± 643.0	0.0 ± 4707.5
Stage IV	2	0.0 ± 4020.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	0.0 ± 0.0	2645.0 ± 323.0	0.0 ± 0.0
r value	—	−0.499	−0.353	−0.395	−0.190	−0.418	−0.397
value	—	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	>0.99	0.020

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