Table 5 of Ban, Mol Vis 2011; 17:2533-2543.

Table 5. Comparison of meibomian glands between the DE/cGVHD group with systemic cGVHD and the DE/cGVHD group without systemic cGVHD using in vivo confocal microscopy.




Examinations		 DE/cGVHD
group with
systemic cGVHD
(10 eyes, 5 cases)		 DE/cGVHD
group without
systemic cGVHD
(7 eyes, 4 cases)


p-value
MGAUD (glands/mm2) 38.4±30.0 85.5±32.3 0.0097*
MGALD (μm) 19.3±7.31 63.0±14.2 < 0.0001*
MGASD (μm) 10.7±4.33 27.6±12.0 0.0009*
Fibrosis (grade) 1.87±0.23 0.71±0.59 0.0007‡

DE=dry eye; cGVHD=chronic graft-versus-host disease; MGAUD=meibomian gland acinar unit density; MGALD=meibomian gland acinar longest diameter; MGASD=meibomian gland acinar shortest diameter; *=Unpaired t-test; ‡=Mann–Whitney test.

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