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Table 1 Comparison of retinal thickness and choroidal thickness among groups with Kruskal-Wallis test

From: Retinal and choroidal thickness measurements using spectral domain optical coherence tomography in anterior and intermediate uveitis

	Location	Thickness (Mean ± SD, μm)			Kruskal-Wallis p value
		IMU	AU	Normal		Post hoc
		IMU	AU	Normal		Normal-IMU	Normal-AU	IMU-AU
Retina	Central (CSF)	368.65 ± 115.88	290.42 ± 26.37	278.55 ± 18.31	0.0003*	0.0001*	0.617	0.0407*
	3 mm ring	390.55 ± 70.90^†	359 ± 15.24^†	345.41 ± 15.28^†	0.0004*	0.0003*	0.0388*	0.7536
	6 mm ring	343.33 ± 57.29^†‡	313.83 ± 16.63^†‡	299.09 ± 13.82^†‡	<0.0001*	<0.0001*	0.0171*	0.4772
Choroid	Central	303.17 ± 93.66	312.61 ± 90.35	311.94 ± 60.48	0.6082	NA	NA	NA
	3 mm ring	289.43 ± 74.5	296.46 ± 81.11^†	297.71 ± 55.7^†	0.6666	NA	NA	NA
	6 mm ring	261.7 ± 66.01^†‡	277.17 ± 73.23^†‡	285.16 ± 48.82^†‡	0.1435	NA	NA	NA

IMU- Intermediate uveitis, AU- Anterior uveitis, CSF-Central subfield.
*- siginficant difference (Kruskal-Wallis test p < 0.05).
^†Different from center (Wilcoxon test p < 0.05).
^‡Different from 3 mm ring (Wilcoxon test p < 0.05).
NA = Not applicable.

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