Table 3.

Quantification of polarized pigment compared between diagnostic groups

	Diagnosis in Parasitemic Patients			p-value*
	Cerebral Malaria	Other	Aparasitemic
Lobule Pigment
Size of polarized pigment	45 ± 16	30 ± 12	31 ± 23	0.0078
Area of polarized pigment	1.47 ± 0.61	0.46 ± 0.48	0.35 ± 0.46	<0.0001
Portal Pigment
Size of polarized pigment	101 ± 35	113 ± 82	114 ± 68	0.8001
Area of polarized pigment	1.51 ± 1.07	1.47 ± 1.36	1.4 ± 1.2	0.9796

^*P-value for diagnostic groups is ANOVA