Corneal elevation and thickness in relation to the refractive status measured with the Pentacam Scheimpflug system.

Purpose: To prospectively evaluate the elevation and thickness data in patients with different types of refractive errors.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.

Methods: After the refractive errors in 215 consecutive patients were determined, corneal topography measurements with the Pentacam Scheimpflug system were taken in the right eye of all patients and the right eye of 31 healthy emmetropic volunteers.