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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Feb 10.

Published in final edited form as: Cornea. 2015 Apr;34(4):464–470. doi: 10.1097/ICO.0000000000000369

Table 1. Comparison of the morphometric data of corneal and limbal epithelium.

	Corneal Epithelium			Limbal Epithelium
	Cell density (cells/mm²)	Cell diameter (μm)	Thickness (μm)	Cell density (cells/mm²)	Cell diameter (μm)	Thickness (μm)
Suprabasal Layer	4078 ± 237	21.5 ± 1.3	18.3 ± 5.0	3790 ± 320	21.2 ± 1.2	27 ± 14.2
Basal Layer	6787 ± 274	12.8 ± 0.7	12.7 ± 3.8	7324 ± 220	10.6 ± 1.0^*	39.9 ± 16.7^†

The morphometric data of corneal and limbal epithelium of three subjects scanned are compared. The data are represented as mean ± SD.

^*

p <0.05 compared to corneal basal epithelial cell diameter

^†

refers to the thickness of POV