Table 1.
Central corneal thickness before and after epithelial removal and after treatment.∗
| Groups | Central Corneal Thickness |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before Epithelial Removal (μm)∗ | After Epithelial Removal (μm)∗ | Posttreatment (μm)∗ | Change (%)† | |
| Untreated | 830 ± 46 | 739 ± 45 | NA | NA |
| Dextran only | 821 ± 41 | 721 ± 39 | 602 ± 41 | −17 |
| Riboflavin–dextran only | 775 ± 45 | 676 ± 45 | 508 ± 39 | −24.9 |
| SCXL 3 mW | 792 ± 48 | 694 ± 50 | 494 ± 28 | −28.8 |
| ACXL 9 mW | 820 ± 38 | 716 ± 40 | 514 ± 31 | −28.1 |
| ACXL 18 mW | 807 ± 32 | 706 ± 34 | 495 ± 34 | −29.9 |
ACXL = accelerated crosslinking; NA = not applicable; SCXL = standard crosslinking
∗
Data are given as mean ± standard deviation.
†
Percentage change from corneal thickness postepithelial removal to posttreatment