Table 1.
Authors | Shape | Sex | Right | Left | Total (R + L) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N | % | N | % | N | % | |||
Berlis et al (1992)1 | Truly oval | − | − | − | − | − | − | 56.7 |
Elongated oval | − | − | − | − | − | − | 31.7 | |
Semicircular | − | − | − | − | − | − | 11.7 | |
Ray et al (2005)5 | Oval | − | 22 | 62.8 | 21 | 60 | 43 | 61.4 |
Almond | − | 11 | 31.4 | 13 | 37.1 | 24 | 34.2 | |
Round | − | 1 | 2.8 | 1 | 2.8 | 2 | 2.8 | |
Slit | − | 1 | 2.8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.4 | |
Somesh et al (2011)7 | Oval | − | 48 | 58.53 | 45 | 54.87 | 93 | 56.70 |
Almond | − | 24 | 29.26 | 23 | 28.04 | 47 | 28.65 | |
Round | − | 8 | 9.75 | 10 | 12.19 | 18 | 10.97 | |
Irregular | − | 2 | 2.43 | 4 | 4.87 | 6 | 3.65 | |
Daimi et al (2011)6 | D shape | − | − | − | − | − | − | 46.16 |
Oval | − | − | − | − | − | − | 29.87 | |
Rounded | − | − | − | − | − | − | 12.52 | |
Elongated | − | − | − | − | − | − | 10.41 | |
Slit | − | − | − | − | − | − | 1.04 | |
Wadhwa et al (2012)17 | Oval | − | 19 | − | 23 | − | 42 | − |
Almond | − | 6 | − | 3 | − | 9 | − | |
Round | − | 3 | − | 3 | − | 6 | − | |
Slit | − | 2 | − | 1 | − | 3 | − | |
Gupta & Rai (2013)18 | Oval | − | 20 | 57.14 | 18 | 51.43 | 38 | 54.29 |
Almond | − | 14 | 40.00 | 11 | 31.43 | 25 | 35.71 | |
Round | − | 1 | 2.86 | 5 | 14.29 | 6 | 8.57 | |
Slit | − | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 2.86 | 1 | 1.43 | |
Kahairnar & Bhusari (2013)8 | Oval | M | 55 | 78.5 | 54 | 77.1 | − | 76.5 |
F | 23 | 76.6 | 21 | 70.0 | − | |||
Almond | M | 6 | 8.5 | 9 | 12.9 | − | 10.5 | |
F | 3 | 10.0 | 3 | 10.0 | − | |||
Round | M | 5 | 7.1 | 5 | 7.1 | − | 7.0 | |
F | 1 | 3.3 | 3 | 10.0 | − | |||
Slit | M | 4 | 5.7 | 2 | 2.9 | − | 6.0 | |
F | 3 | 10.0 | 3 | 10.0 | − | |||
Patil et al (2014)19 | Oval | − | 40 | − | 44 | − | 84 | 70 |
Almond | − | 4 | − | 2 | − | 6 | 5.0 | |
Round | − | 9 | − | 7 | − | 16 | 13.33 | |
Slit | − | 4 | − | 5 | − | 9 | 7.5 | |
Pear | − | 3 | − | 2 | − | 5 | 4.17 |
Hyphen “-“ designates information that was not included by the original report.