| Measurement of Angle Lambda Using Pentacam in Normal and Exotropic Children. |
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Young Je Sung, Sang Min Nam, Helen Lew |
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Department of Ophthalmology, CHA Bundang Medical Center, CHA University School of Medicine, Seongnam, Korea. eye@cha.ac.kr |
| 외사시와 정상 소아 환자에서 펜타캠을 이용한 람다각의 측정 |
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성영제⋅남상민⋅유혜린 |
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차의과학대학교 분당차병원 안과학교실 |
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Received: 27 September 2014 • Revised: 19 March 2015 • Accepted: 20 March 2015 |
| Abstract |
PURPOSE
We measured angle lambda in normal and exotropic patients using Pentacam HR (Oculus, Wetzler, Germany). The relationship between angle lambda and refractive error was analyzed in the present study. METHODS: From December, 2013 to August, 2014, 135 eyes of 135 individuals under 16 years of age were enrolled in this study. Pentacam measures a distance between the center of the pupil and the corneal reflex point. The distance was converted to the angle lambda using the second law of cosines. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS for Windows, version 21.0 (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL, USA). The differences among the groups when measuring angle lambda were calculated using independent t-test, Mann-Whitney test and analysis of variance (ANOVA). Pearson's correlation test was used to analyze the correlation among the variables. RESULTS: The mean age was 7.60 +/- 3.68 years. Mean angle lambda values of the normal and exotropia groups were 4.41 +/- 2.23degrees and 4.92 +/- 2.58degrees, respectively. To evaluate the association of angle lambda and refraction measures, individuals were further classified according to the degree of myopia and hyperopia. The angle lambda values in the 3 groups according to refraction status (myopic, emmetropic and hyperopic) were 3.95 +/- 2.16degrees, 4.84 +/- 2.62degrees and 5.30 +/- 2.35degrees, respectively. A positive correlation was observed between angle lambda and spherical equivalent (correlation coefficient = 0.341, p < 0.001). A significant negative correlation was observed between angle lambda and age (correlation coefficient = -0.181, p = 0.036). There was a negative correlation between axial length and angle lambda (correlation coefficient = -0.469, p = 0.003). CONCLUSIONS: The results in this study were in agreement with the results from previous studies. Measuring the distance between the centers of the pupil and the point of corneal reflection using Pentacam is recommended as a quick, objective, quantitative and reproducible method to measure the angle lambda in children. |
| Key Words:
Angle lambda;Exotropia;Pentacam |
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