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Table 1 Patient demographics and clinical factors

From: Clinical characteristics according to the laterality of ocular torsion in unilateral superior oblique palsy

Variable

Congenital (n = 56)

Acquired (n = 14)

p-value

Mean ± SD

Mean ± SD

Age (years)

11 ± 6

41 ± 12

< 0.001a

Gender (Male/Female)

38/18

11/3

0.524b

Age at surgery (years)

8 ± 6

34 ± 12

< 0.001b

Laterality (Right/Left)

25/31

5/9

0.764 a

BCVA of paretic eyes (logMAR)

0.92 ± 0.11

0.89 ± 0.14

1.000 a

Refractive error of paretic eyes (PD)

−0.78 ± 2.20

−1.05 ± 1.71

0.236 a

Grade of inferior oblique overaction

2.1 ± 0.6

0.9 ± 0.6

< 0.001a

Grade of superior oblique palsy

1.2 ± 0.7

1.1 ± 0.5

0.659 a

Presence of horizontal strabismus

32 (57%)

3 (21%)

0.017b

Presence of disassociated vertical deviation

3 (5%)

0

1.000b

Preoperative vertical deviation at primary gaze (PD)

8.8 ± 6.1

8.7 ± 8.1

0.614a

Preoperative maximal vertical deviation (PD)

15.4 ± 7.9

15.5 ± 8.4

0.440a

Laterality of cyclodeviation

 Excyclotorsion in the paretic eyes

36 (64%)

9 (64%)

1.000b

 Excyclotorsion in the nonparetic eyes

20 (36%)

5 (36%)

1.000b

  1. aWilcoxon Mann-Whitney test
  2. bFisher’s exact test
  3. BCVA best-corrected visual acuity;