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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 7.
Published in final edited form as: Retina. 2009 Mar;29(3):340–348. doi: 10.1097/IAE.0b013e31819241d0

Table 1a.

Demographic and morphological findings among all 73 patients.

Macular Hole Types I II III IV V p-value*
Number of Patients 20 18 14 17 4
Sex 0.56C
Male 95% 83.3% 78.6% 82.4% 100%
Female 5% 16.7% 21.4% 17.7%
Mean (sd) Mean (sd) Mean (sd) Mean (sd)
Age (years) 23.5 (8.8) 28.3 (8.2) 32.6 (8.8) 25.6 (8.3) 27.0 (14.7) 0.06A
Average retinal thickness (μm) 366 (138) 286 (77) 137 (40) 190 (95) 128 (24) <0.0001
LogMar visual acuity 0.99 (0.56) 1.34 (0.57) 1.35 (0.45) 1.29 (0.36) 1.31 (0.46) 0.16
Apex area, (10000 μm2) 22.9 (24.4) 22.0 (16.6) 21.9 (32.0) 13.3 (12.1) 51.9 (36.5) 0.07
Base area, (10000 μm2) 114 (74) 124 (53) 69 (55) 357 (318) 68 (32) <0.0001
Eccentricity of apex 0.66 (0.27) 0.68 (0.23) 0.58 (0.23) 0.63 (0.22) 0.56 (0.26) 0.73
Eccentricity of base 0.66 (0.24) 0.66 (0.18) 0.66 (0.22) 0.73 (0.20) 0.63 (0.29) 0.85
Days from injury to evaluation, median (range) 53 (8-4380) 30 (2-1095) 16.5 (3-120) 10 (2-210) 31 (14-1530) 0.01K
*

C = Chi-squared, A = Analysis of variance, K = Kruskall Wallis.