Table 1.

Esophageal lipoma case reports.

Author	Age	Location	Symptoms	Operation
Kinnear (1955)	44	L	Epigastric pain	Thoracotomy
Schmidt et al. (1961)	47	NA	Irritation on swallowing	Thoracotomy
Mayo et al. (1963) [1]	NA	NA	NA	NA
Nora (1964) [7]	70	L	Dysphagia	Thoraco-abdominal
Tolis & Shields (1967) [8]	51	MI	Epigastralgia	Thoracotomy
Sekiya & Ida [9]	69	C	Dysphagia	Cervical resection
Tasaka et al. (1982) [10]	54	C	Dysphagia	Cervical resection
Hosokawa et al. (1985) [11]	43	U	Dysphagia	Endoscopic resection
Oyamada et al. (1987) [12]	75	L	Dysphagia	Endoscopic resection
Akiyama et al. (1990) [3]	75	U	Dysphagia	Thoracotomy
Zschiedrich (1990) [13]	64	U	Dysphagia	Thoracotomy
Hasan & Mandhan (1994) [14]	4	C	Wheezing	Cervical resection
Sossai et al. (1996) [15]	46	L	Epigastralgia	Diathermic snare
Samad et al. (1999) [16]	6	U	Respiratory distress	Thoracotomy
Chien-Ying Wang et al. (2005) [17]	71	U	Dysphagia	Video-assisted thoracoscopic enucleation
C. Algin & E. Ihtiyar (2006) [18]	55	U	Dysphagia	Thoracotomy
Ryan L. Kau et al. (2011) [19]	38	U	Odynophagia	Laryngopharyngoscopy
K.Tsalis et al. (2012)	40	L	Dysphagia	Laparoscopic enucleation

L – lower third; U – upper third; Mi – middle third; C – cervical esophagus; NA – not available.