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. 2020 Jan 31;145(2):e20191544. doi: 10.1542/peds.2019-1544

TABLE 2.

Primary and Neuropsychological Outcomes

Prenatal Surgery Postnatal Surgery
n Mean ± SD n Mean ± SD P
Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales IIa 78 89.0 ± 9.6 81 87.5 ± 12.0 .35
 Communicationa 78 94.3 ± 12.2 81 92.4 ± 15.0
 Daily livinga 78 87.6 ± 10.8 81 84.3 ± 12.4
 Socializationa 78 96.2 ± 10.9 81 96.2 ± 12.4
KBIT-2
 Composite scorea 78 99.0 ± 16.2 80 91.6 ± 22.5 .05
 Verbal learninga 78 101.3 ± 15.1 80 95.9 ± 22.2
 Nonverbal reasoninga 78 96.3 ± 17.4 80 88.0 ± 21.5
California Verbal Learning Test–Children’s Version (trials 1–5)b 76 41.5 ± 10.6 75 39.4 ± 11.2 .35
WJ-III
 Reading compositea,c 77 100.5 ± 17.2 79 93.8 ± 19.8 .01
 Math calculationsa 77 91.9 ± 21.2 77 88.7 ± 22.3 .42
CMS
 Dot learningd 78 8.2 ± 3.0 77 7.0 ± 3.2 .04
 Faces immediated 72 7.7 ± 2.7 71 7.4 ± 4.1 .34
Beery Visual-Motor Integrationa 78 85.9 ± 10.8 79 82.5 ± 14.6 .26
Purdue Pegboarde 78 −2.1 ± 1.2 78 −2.9 ± 1.6 <.001
Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment, Second Edition, word generationd 77 8.1 ± 2.7 80 7.3 ± 3.3 .17

P values from the Wilcoxon test. —, not applicable.

a

Standard score metric mean 100; SD 15.

b

T score metric mean 50; SD 10.

c

Average of the following tests: Letter-Word Identification and Passage Comprehension.

d

Scale score, mean 10; SD 3 for each subtest.

e

Average z score for pegs placed with preferred hand, nonpreferred hand, and both hands.