Table 1. Patient characteristics according to scleritis subtype.
| Diagnosis/subtype | No. of patients | Mean age (a) | Duration of diagnosis (a) | Male patients n (%) | Female patients n (%) | Bilateral n (%) |
| Anterior scleritis | 36 | 55.3±18.1 (18-90) | 2.9±3.2 (1-14) | 15 (41.7) | 21 (58.3) | 7 (13.4) |
| Non-necrotizing scleritis | 22 | 53.0±17.7 (20-90) | 3.0±3.6 (1-14) | 10 (45.5) | 12 (54.5) | 5 (22.7) |
| Necrotizing scleritis | 12 | 59.3±18.6 (18-82) | 3.0±2.6 (1-9) | 4 (33.3) | 8 (66.7) | 0 (0.0) |
| Necrotizing without inflammation (scleromalacia perforans) | 2 | 60.6±13.7 (38-82) | 3.3±3.2 (1-9) | 1 (50.0) | 1 (50.0) | 2 (100.0) |
| Posterior scleritis | 14 | 40.6±18.4 (12-82) | 2.3±1.9 (1-7) | 2 (14.2) | 12 (85.7) | 7 (50.0) |
| Panscleritis (anterior+posterior scleritis) | 2 | 73.0±8.5 (18-90) | 5.0±4.2 (2-8) | 1 (50.0) | 1 (50.0) | 1 (50.0) |
| Total | 52 | 50.8±19.3 (12-90) | 2.6±2.8 (0-14) | 18 (34.6) | 34 (65.4) | 15 (28.8) |
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