Research Article
Evaluation of Wide Corneal Epithelial Remodeling after Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE) with Wide-Field Optical Coherence Tomography
Table 5
Correlation between spherical equivalent and corneal epithelial thickness parameters at six months postoperatively.
| Parameter (μm) | r | |
| ET of central zone | −0.231 | 0.066 | ET of paracentral zone | −0.127 | 0.316 | ET of mid-peripheral zone | 0.023 | 0.859 | Epithelial thickening of central zone | −0.313 | 0.012 | Epithelial thickening of paracentral zone | −0.073 | 0.569 | Epithelial thickening of mid-peripheral zone | 0.081 | 0.523 | Difference of mean ET between central and paracentral zone | −0.291 | 0.020 | Difference of mean ET between central and mid-peripheral zone | 0.218 | 0.084 |
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ET: epithelial thickness.
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