Table 3.

Comparison of histological and in vivo confocal microscopy inflammatory cell density assessments

Histological inflammatory infiltrate grade	Median IVCM inflammatory cell density, cells/mm2	n	p Value*
0	1242	15	0.05
1	948	22
2	2088	7
3	1539	5

*Kruskal–Wallis analysis of variance.

IVCM, in vivo confocal microscopy.