Table 1.

Published case reports of intra-abdominal esophageal duplication cyst.

	Reference	Year	Age	Sex	Symptoms	Location	Size (cm)	Treatment
(1)	Ruffin and Hansen [7]	1989	38	F	Epigastric pain, nausea, and vomit	Distal esophagus	4	Resection
(2)	Harvell et al. [8]	1996	57	F	Epigastric pain	Superior border of the body of pancreas	2.2	Laparoscopic resection
(3)	Karahasanoglu et al. [9]	1997	51	M	Dysphagia, weight loss, and epigastric pain	Subdiaphragm	11	Esophagogastrectomy
(4)	Janssen and Fiedler [10]	1998	56	F	Incidental (staging CT for rectal tumor)	Superior to the left kidney	8	Open resection
(5)	Rathaus and Feinberg [11]	2000	5	F	Epigastric pain	Between the left lobe of the liver and the cardia	1	Open resection
(6)	Nelms et al. [12]	2002	44	M	Low back pain	Diaphragmatic crura	7	Laparoscopic resection
(7)	Vijayaraghavan and Belagavi [13]	2002	70	F	Incidental (retching, giddiness, and headache)	Midline between the stomach and liver	7.5	Open resection
(8)	Noguchi et al. [14]	2003	26	F	Incidental (anal bleeding)	Right anterior wall of the distal esophagus	4	Laparoscopic resection with esophageal repair (Nissen)
(9)	Kin et al. [15]	2003	51	F	Incidental (staging CT for breast cancer)	Diaphragmatic crura	4.5	Laparoscopic resection with intraoperative esophagoscopy
(10)	Sakurai et al. [16]	2006	62	M	Dysphagia, upper abdominal pain	Bifurcation of the trachea through the proximal portion of the stomach	15	Resection, thoracotomy followed by laparotomy
(11)	Martin et al. [17]	2007	50	F	Left flank pain	Inferior portion of the pancreatic body/tail and the transverse mesocolon	6.5	Open resection
(12)	Martin et al. [17]	2007	60	M	Epigastric pain, gastric outlet obstruction	Dorsal to the second portion of the duodenum and the pancreatic head	10	Open resection
(13)	Aldrink and Kenney [18]	2011	2	M	Incidental (in laparoscopic fundoplication)	Anterior portion of the gastroesophageal junction	3	Laparoscopic resection with fundoplication
(14)	Gümüş et al. [19]	2011	18	F	Dyspeptic complaints	Lower end of the esophagus adjacent to the liver	4.2	Open resection
(15)	Bhamidipati et al. [20]	2013	69	M	Incidental (CT for diverticulitis)	Gastroesophageal junction	4.4	Laparoscopic resection
(16)	Pujar et al. [21]	2013	13	F	Pain in epigastric region	Gastroesophageal junction below the left lobe of the liver	5	Laparoscopic resection
(17)	Mori et al. [22]	2013	9	M	Incidental (CT for hematuria)	Ventral surface of the abdominal esophagus	2	Laparoscopic resection
(18)	Castelijns et al. [23]	2014	20	M	Nausea, colic pain	Gastroesophageal junction	3.2	Laparoscopic resection
(19)	Our case	2014	50	M	Epigastric pain, dysphagia	Intra-abdominal esophagus extending to the distal thoracic esophagus	3.5	Laparoscopic resection with intraoperative esophagoscopy

CT, computed tomography.