Table 2.

Average thicknesses of limbal epithelium in four quadrants

	superior	inferior	nasal	temporal	F	P
LSCD	55.9±11.6	54.8±13.7	49.2±7.3	51.1±9.4	3.704	0.019*
normal controls	69.8±16.7	71.5±15.6	57.1±14.3	59.1±9.7	15.229	<0.001‡
t value	7.994	9.158	5.916	6.624
P value	0.008	0.006	0.01	0.01
with POV	68.12±4.5	70.1±8.3	55.9±3.4	57.9±3.2	13.381	<0.001‡
without POV	50.4±9.6	50.2±11.6	48.7±7.3	49.9±9.8	0.221	0.881
t value	7.741	6.082	2.588	2.902
P value	0.009	0.01	0.09	0.06

LSCD: limbal stem cell deficiency; POV: palisades of Vogt

^*P<0.05,

^†P<0.01,

^‡P<0.001