Table 1. Summary of Published Giant Pericardial Cyst Case Reports.

Reference	Publication Year	Age, y	Gender	Size, cm	Location	Presenting Symptom	Treatment
Present study	2015	24	Male	13 × 8 × 5	Right side	Dyspnea and persistent cough	Surgical excision with median sternotomy
Simsek et al. (10)	2014	28	Male	6.4 × 9	Right side	Fever, sore throat, dry cough, pleuritic chest pain	Conservative management
Hamad et al. (11)	2013	30	Male	11.2 × 7.4	Right side	Weight loss(15 Kg), palpitation,chest pain	Surgical treatment
Forouzandeh et al. (12)	2012	71	Female	8 × 5	Right side	Dyspnea, cough, fever	Video-assisted thoracoscopic excision
Celik et al. (13)	2012	54	Male	6.5 × 4.7	Left side	Acute coronary symptom	Surgical resection and bypass operation(CABG) at the same time
Kaklikkaya (9)	2011	39	Male	22 × 15 × 7	Left side	Several episodes of left pleuritic chest pain	Left side thoracotomy
Kumar et al. (14)	2011	5	Male (child)	10 × 9.5 × 9	Right side	Chest pain, cough, fever	Surgical excision with median sternotomy
Thanneer et al. (15)	2011	22	Female	21.5 × 11.4 × 14.2	Behind the heart in posterior mediastinum	Syncope	Needle aspiration
Matono et al. (16)	2010	38	Male	12 × 10	Right side	Asymptomatic and excised because of rapid growing after 20 years	Video-assisted thoracoscopic excision
Neizel et al. (17)	2010	59	Female	Approximately 5 × 5	intrathoracic mass behind the heart	Atrial flutter and presyncope	Excision with surgery
Pereira et al. (18)	2008	73	Female	14 × 10 × 7	Right and anterior and left side of heart	Retrosternal pain	Referred for surgery but was not operated
Nina et al. (19)	2007	44	Female	13 × 9.5	Right side	Progressive exertional dyspnea, right side chest pain, dry cough	Right side thoracotomy
Dernellis et al. (20)	2001	27	Female	15.6 × 12.2 × 5.6	Right side	Asymptomatic	Surgical removal (the reason for referral for surgery was not mentioned)