In Vivo Confocal Microscopy Observation of Cell and Nerve Density in Different Corneal Regions with Monocular Pterygium

Table 3

Differences in the number of cell parameters in the central cornea, nasal cornea, nasal mid-peripheral cornea, and temporal cornea of the fellow eyes.

Layers	Central cornea	Nasal cornea	Superior nasal cornea	Below nasal cornea	Temporal cornea
Basal epithelial cells (cells/mm^2)	6369 ± 801	6155 ± 975	6004 ± 727	5669 ± 489	6079 ± 562
Anterior stromal cells (cells/mm^2)	649 ± 198	570 ± 186	575 ± 162	515 ± 107	594 ± 141
Posterior stromal cells (cells/mm^2)	436 ± 115	430 ± 79	467 ± 83	409 ± 57	398 ± 92
Endothelial cells (cells/mm^2)	2404 ± 216	2371 ± 212	2472 ± 247	2554 ± 303	2343 ± 250
Dendritic cells (cells/mm^2)	35 ± 47	63 ± 65	64 ± 36	67 ± 66	49 ± 57
CNFD (n/mm^2)	12.34 ± 4.58	9.40 ± 3.64	14.80 ± 6.76	11.25 ± 2.76	8.56 ± 3.85
CNFL (mm/mm^2)	29.54 ± 13.14	21.55 ± 8.84	22.01 ± 9.61	33.69 ± 12.19	32.03 ± 4.69
CNBD (n/mm^2)	12.37 ± 7.09	10.65 ± 8.85	14.06 ± 10.79	12.85 ± 15.94	9.53 ± 9.60
CNFT	1.09 ± 0.94	1.35 ± 1.23	0.79 ± 0.60	0.83 ± 0.53	1.19 ± 0.92

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