Table 1.

Characteristic Data of Patients Who Underwent Tongue Reduction by a Single Surgeon, at a Single Institution, at the Physician-Recommended Time

Characteristic	Value
No. of patients	36
Gestational age, wk
Median	35.2
IQR	31.9–38.4
Length of follow-up, mo*
Median	7
IQR	2.5–26
Age at first evaluation by any plastic surgeon, mo*
Median	5
IQR	1–9.5
Time elapsed between first evaluation by single surgeon and tongue reduction surgery, mo*
Median	2
IQR	0–8
Age at last follow-up with physician, mo
Median	27.5
IQR	13–43
Age at tongue reduction, mo*†
Median	9.5
IQR	3.8–22.8
BWS clinical score
Median	10
IQR	8.5–11

IQR, interquartile range; BWS, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome.

^*Skewness/Kurtosis test for normality demonstrated that these data points did not follow a normal distribution.

^†Age corrected to 37 weeks’ gestation if premature (<37 weeks).