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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Plast Reconstr Surg. 2018 Apr;141(4):547e–558e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000004233

Table 1.

Subject demographics, cleft type and extent.



Group A Group B*


Infant Pre-
Repair
Infant Post-
repair
Infant
Control
8–10 y
Post-repair
8–10 y
Control
Mean age at photo 7.5 months 10 months 5.5 months 9.5 years 9 years
  Standard deviation 7 months 10 months 1 month 1.5 years 0.7 years
Sex
  Male 32 (71%) 32 (71%) 4 (80%) 27 (61%) 2 (40%)
  Female 13 (29%) 13 (29%) 1 (20%) 17 (39%) 3 (60%)
Ethnicity
  Caucasian 27 (60%) 27 (60%) 2 (40%) 17 (39%) 4 (80%)
  Asian 4 (9%) 4 (9%) 1 (20%) 19 (43%) 0 (0%)
  Latino 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (20%)
  Native American 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 1 (2%) 0 (0%)
  Mixed Caucasian
    Caucasian/Asian 1 (2%) 1 (2%) 1 (20%) 2 (5%) 0 (0%)
    Caucasian/Indian 1 (2%) 1 (2%) 1 (20%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
    Caucasian/Hawaiian 1 (2%) 1 (2%) 0 (0%) 1 (2%) 0 (0%)
    Caucasian/Other 1 (2%) 1 (2%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%) 0 (0%)
  Other 7 (16%) 7 (16%) 0 (0%) 2 (5%) 0 (0%)
  Did not indicate 3 (7%) 3 (7%) 0 (0%) 2 (5%) 0 (0%)
Cleft Side
  Left 25 (56%) 25 (56%) NA 33 (75%) NA
  Right 20 (44%) 20 (44%) NA 11 (25%) NA
Cleft Type
  Complete 15 (31%) 15 (31%) NA 41 (93%) NA
  Complete + band** 6 (13%) 6 (13%) NA 2 (5%) NA
  Incomplete 24 (53%) 24 (53%) NA 1 (2%) NA
Cleft Extent
  Cleft Lip 15 (33%) 15 (33%) NA 6 (14%) NA
  Cleft Lip and Alveolus 5 (11%) 5 (11%) NA 2 (5%) NA
  Cleft Lip and Palate 25 (56%) 25 (56%) NA 36 (82%) NA
Associated Syndrome 4 (9%) 4 (9%) NA 2 (5%) NA
*

Pre-repair images for Group B were not available for analysis. One subject was excluded from the study due to an image quality problem, resulting in a final set of 44 8–10y subjects post-repair.

**

Band (a.k.a. Simonart band) was defined as any soft tissue found across the cleft in the presence of a complete cleft of alveolus.

Popliteal pterygium syndrome, bilateral hand and foot syndactyly, cardiac anomalies, EEC.

Van der Woode syndrome.