. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 13.

Published in final edited form as: J Neurosurg. 2007 Aug;107(2 Suppl):103–110. doi: 10.3171/PED-07/08/103

TABLE 3.

Mean adjusted postsurgical (for patients) 18-month-old neurobehavioral test scores by diagnostic group^*

Diagnostic Category & Suture Site	No. of Part	Mean Score^†

		BSID-II		PLS-3

		MDI	PDI	AC	EC	TL
control	115	94.51	86.60	14.33	13.71	28.26
sagittal	86	93.90	84.20	14.07	13.35	27.55
metopic	35	92.33	84.24	13.40	12.94	26.32
rt unicoronal	20	88.69	83.29	13.25	13.06	26.29
lt unicoronal	16	86.67	80.55	13.01	13.11	26.27
lambdoid	11	83.98	80.15	12.71	11.66	24.18
p value^‡		0.09	0.81	0.45	0.46	0.42

Part = participants.

^†

Scores are adjusted for participants’ study site, age at testing (in months), SES (Hollingshead index measured continuously), race (Caucasian vs. other), and sex.

^‡

Probability values are from a two-sided likelihood ratio test of the differences among patients’ diagnostic categories. Control means are listed in the table for reference purposes only.