Table 4

Statistical analysis of mean cell counts (×400 field) of positive cells in the EOMs of early, late TAO and control specimens using the Mann-Whitney U-Wilcoxon rank sum W test

Specimens	CD45RB	CD45RO	CD20	CD4	CD8	MAC	HLA-DR
Early TAO (n=5)
Mean rank	18.50	19.00	10.00	16.50	13.30	18.20	13.00
Normal EOM (n=16)
Mean rank	8.66	8.50	11.31	9.28	10.28	8.75	10.38
p Value	0.0004	0.0001	0.7190	0.0194	0.3539	0.0012	0.4451
Late TAO (n=12)
Mean rank	19.58	19.50	15.50	17.75	14.42	18.25	17.17
Normal EOM (n=16)
Mean rank	10.69	10.75	13.75	12.06	14.56	11.69	12.50
p Value	0.0037	0.0044	0.59	0.0735	0.9818	0.0373	0.1457

n = number of samples.
Statistical analysis refers to comparisons between samples from TAO and normal EOM using the same Ab.