Table 3.

Potential predictors for postoperative outcome, resection and recession length by correlation analysis for the whole sample (r Pearson, 95% CI)

	Postoperative deviaton	Preoperative deviation	Age	Strabismus type	Amblyopia degree	EOM recession (mm)	EOM resection (mm)	LRM tendon width	MRM tendon width	LRM insertion	MRM insertion
Postoperative deviation	1	0.91* 0.88, 0.93	0.13 −0.02, 0.28	0.12 −0.01, 0.26	0.21* 0.08, 0.35	0.23* 0.11, 0.33	0.16† 0.02, 0.29	0.08 −0.04, 0.2	0.09 −0.03, 0.22	0.11 −0.03, 0.26	0.14† −0.00, 0.28
Preoperative deviation		1	0.29* 0.14, 0.42	0.21* 0.08, 0.34	0.29* 0.15, 0.43	0.20* 0.08, 0.32	0.36* 0.24, 0.47	0.074 −0.06, 0.2	0.14† 0.02, 0.28	0.17* 0.04, 0.32	0.09* 0.06, 0.33
Age			1	0.59* 0.49, 0.69	0.17† 0.03, 0.31	0.05 0.19, 0.09	0.64* 0.56, 0.71	0.14† −0.01, 0.29	0.02 −0.09, 0.14	0.41* 0.3, 0.52	0.42* 0.29, 0.53
Strabismus type				1	0.08 0.2, 0.05	0.03 −0.13, 0.18	0.49* 0.38, 0.6	0.16† 0.02, 0.3	0.03 0.15, 0.1	0.43* 0.31, 0.54	0.37* 0.24, 0.49
Amblyopia degree					1	0.03 −0.15, 0.21	0.18* 0.03, 0.31	0.03 −0.12, 0.18	0.19* 0.06, 0.33	0.11 −0.01, 0.23	0.08 −0.04, 0.2
EOM recession						1	0.44* 0.54,–0.33	0.07 −0.06, 0.19	0.07 0.21, 0.07	0.13 −0.01, 0.27	0.08 −0.06, 0.22
EOM resection							1	0.09 −0.05, 0.22	0.09 −0.05, 0.21	0.27* 0.16, 0.4	0.28* 0.16, 0.4
LRM tendon width								1	0.03 0.17, 0.11	0.19* 0.06, 0.31	0.13 0.01, 0.26
MRM tendon width									1	0.11 −0.02, 0.24	0.044 −0.1, 0.18
LRM insertion										1	0.81* 0.76, 0.86
MRM insertion											1

Nr = 216.

*Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two tailed).

†Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (two tailed).

EOM, extraocular muscle; LRM, lateral rectus muscle; MRM, medial rectus muscle.