The Cognitive Profile of Children with Nonsyndromic Craniosynostosis

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Marizela KljajićLars Kölby

Abstract

Long-term neuropsychological and cognitive outcomes in patients with nonsyndromic craniosynostosis have proven difficult to evaluate objectively because of methodologic problems with published studies based on their small and biased samples of patients, wide age ranges, and testing with unacceptable psychometric properties. This study evaluated the Full-Scale Intelligence Quotient and its subscales in a cohort with a small selection bias. Patients aged 7 to 16 years, born with nonsyndromic craniosynostosis and surgically treated, were tested using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Fourth Edition. Ninety-one patients were invited, and 73 patients were tested. There was no difference in Full-Scale Intelligence Quotient score between patients who had undergone operations for sagittal synostosis or metopic synostosis and norms provided by the test. Patients operated on for sagittal synostosis showed a significantly higher perceptual reasoning intelligence quotient, but also significantly lower working-memory intelligence quotient and processing-speed intelligence quotient compared with the norms. Patients operated on for metopic synostosis showed no differences in any intelligence quotient index compared with the norm. ...Continue Reading

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Oct 30, 2019·Child Neuropsychology : a Journal on Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence·Marizela KljajićLars Kölby
Aug 3, 2020·Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery·Karin K TillmanFotios C Papadopoulos
Dec 12, 2020·The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery·John SmetonaJohn A Persing

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