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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Aug 6.
Published in final edited form as: Dysphagia. 2019 Aug 6;35(3):419–437. doi: 10.1007/s00455-019-10045-6

Table 3.

Sample size, age, and body weight for surgical groups at the study start and end points

Surgical groups Group sample size Start of study End of study
Males Females Males Females
Age Body weight Age Body weight Age Body weight Age Body weight
RLN transection (unilateral) 9 (4M, 5F) 6.85 (0.45) 31.35 (2.09) 7.30 (0.00) 24.02 (0.53) 11.55 (0.45) 31.85 (2.68) 11.20 (0.12) 25.47 (0.69)
SLN transection (unilateral) 9 (4M, 5F) 4.25 (0.03) 24.93 (1.03) 5.24 (0.27) 20.80 (0.77) 7.75 (0.03) 28.64 (0.89) 8.8 (0.29) 22.29 (0.64)
SLN transection (bilateral) 10 (3M, 7F) 3.20 (0.16) 27.67 (2.07) 3.27 (0.09) 20.92 (0.39) 7.05 (0.42) 30.92 (0.97) 6.67 (0.08) 23.80 (0.70)
Sham surgery 10 (6M, 4F) 3.87 (0.08) 26.33 (0.99) 4.00 (2.00) 22.92 (1.17) 7.62 (0.19) 31.58 (0.91) 7.60 (0.21) 25.11 (1.76)

Age months (standard error of the mean), body weight grams (standard error of the mean), M males, F females