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Methods: This retrospective study included 204 eyes of 204 patients categorized into four groups: healthy controls (n = 46), PACG (n = 53), POAG (n = 58), and SOAG (n = 47). All participants underwent spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT). Peripapillary RNFL thickness, sectoral and average GCIPL thickness, and GCIPL-derived asymmetry ratios were analyzed. Diagnostic performance was assessed using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. Results: Diagnostic accuracy varied according to glaucoma subtype. In distinguishing POAG from healthy controls, the average RNFL thickness (area under the ROC curve [AUC] = 0.82) demonstrated the highest diagnostic performance, followed by the superotemporal, inferotemporal, and average GCIPL thickness parameters. In contrast, no parameter reached an AUC of \u22650.80 in the PACG or SOAG comparisons. GCIPL asymmetry ratios exhibited limited discriminative ability across most analyses. Subtype differentiation was modest; POAG versus SOAG comparisons yielded AUC values up to 0.66, whereas PACG versus SOAG comparisons demonstrated minimal discrimination (AUC range: 0.47\u20130.63). Conclusions: Peripapillary RNFL and localized temporal GCIPL thickness measurements provide the highest diagnostic accuracy for identifying POAG. Diagnostic performance is reduced in PACG and SOAG, and the OCT parameters show limited ability to differentiate between glaucoma subtypes. 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