Table 3.

The scores of the anatomy of the pharynx between the tongue-out group and the non-tongue-out group (The Mann-Whitney U test).

	Cases	Soft palate	Uvula	Epiglottis	Epiglottic fossa	Pyriform fossa	Arytenoid folds	Tongue
Tongue-out group	63	1.92 ± 0.37	1.90 ± 0.39	1.81 ± 0.43	1.90 ± 0.39	1.57 ± 0.68	1.56 ± 0.74	1.95 ± 0.28
Non-tongue-out group	56	1.18 ± 0.47	1.61 ± 0.68	1.57 ± 0.49	1.54 ± 0.57	1.57 ± 0.62	1.54 ± 0.63	1.00 ± 0.19
Mann-Whitney U		208.00	1228.50	1328.00	1140.00	1724.00	1664.00	195.50
P		0.000	0.000	0.003	0.000	0.798	0.526	0.000