Table 1.

Reviews of twenty resected cases of thymic LCNEC in the English language literature.

Number	Year	Author	Age	Sex	Size (mm)	Preoperative therapy	Postoperative therapy	Masaoka stage	Recurrence (months)	Recurrence site	Observation (months)
1	2003	Tiffert et al. [6]	75	M	170	None	Radiotherapy	III	No		67
2	2006	Nagata et al. [7]	57	F	70	None	Chemoradiotherapy	III	7	Lung	11
3	2008	Mega et al. [8]	67	F	50	None	Chemoradiotherapy	IVb	6	Brain, Bone	9
4	2009	Dutta [9]	44	M	80	None	Chemoradiotherapy	III	6	Bone	13
5	2010	Cardillo et al. [10]	48	M	Not available	Chemotherapy	Radiotherapy	III	No		73
6	2010	Cardillo [10]	49	M	Not available	Chemoradiotherapy	Radiotherapy	III	No		69
7	2010	Cardillo et al. [10]	50	F	Not available	not available	Radiotherapy	IVa	No		51
8	2010	Cardillo [10]	48	F	Not available	not available	Radiotherapy	III	No		13
9	2010	Cardillo et al. [10]	46	M	Not available	not available	Radiotherapy	III	No		95
10	2012	Ahn et al. [11]	67	M	90	Radiotherapy	Chemoradiotherapy	IVb	3	Local recurrence	3
11	2012	Ahn [11]	42	M	85	Chemoradiotherapy	None	III	1	Bone	7
12	2012	Ahn et al. [11]	72	F	73	Chemotherapy	Radiotherapy	IVa	2	Bone, Liver, Mediastinum	4
13	2012	Yoon et al. [12]	64	M	85	None	None	IVb	9	Liver, Adrenal gland, Bone	48
14	2012	Yoon et al. [12]	57	M	170	Chemotherapy	Radiotherapy	IVb	12	Bone	12
15	2015	Igawa et al. [13]	59	M	40	None	Chemotherapy	II	48	Pleural dissemination, Mediastinal lymphnode	61
16	2018	Domen et al. [14]	90	M	31	None	None	III	No		12
17	2018	Ose et al. [15]	80	F	65	None	Not available	IVa	10	Lung	71
18	2018	Ose [15]	57	F	90	None	Radiotherapy	I	No		30
19	2018	Ose et al. [15]	44	M	78	Chemoradiotherapy	Not available	III	10	Bone	64
20	2019	Our case	55	F	48	None	Chemotherapy	III	No		30