Table 1.

Clinical features of mediastinal ectopic pancreas described in the literature.

Year	Symptom	Sex	Age	Tumor size (CM)	Gross feature	Position	Incision	Following-up (M)
1957 (2)	Dyspnea	Female	16	12	Cystic	/	Median sternotomy	/
1977 (3)	No symptom	Female	57	7×6.5	Cystic	Left	Left thoracotomy	/
1996 (4)	Heart murmur	Female	16	12	Cystic	/	Median sternotomy	/
2001 (5)	Cough, chest pain	Female	45	11×8	Cystic	Left	Median sternotomy	24
2004 (6)	Dyspnea	Male	44	10×8×7.5	Cystic	Left	Median sternotomy	/
2005 (7)	No symptom	Male	39	10×8	Cystic	Left	Median sternotomy	96
2006 (8)	Fever, neck swelling, dyspnea	Male	40	8×6×6	Cystic	Left	Median sternotomy	/
2007 (9)	Chest pain	Female	17	12.5×12.0×4.5	Cystic	Right	Right thoracotomy	/
2007 (9)	Chest pain, short of breath	Female	24	10×8×4	Cystic-solid	Right	Right thoracotomy	/
2009 (10)	No symptom	Female	32	16×13×8	Cystic-solid	Bilateral	Median sternotomy	3
2010 (11)	Chest pain, cough, dyspnea	Male	51	7.5×7.0×5.0	Cystic	Right	Median sternotomy	/
2010 (11)	Left shoulder pain, dyspnea, hemoptysis	Male	42	/	Cystic-solid	Left	Left thoracotomy	28
2012 (12)	Chest pain	Female	66	7.8×4.6×2.7 and 10.8×9.1×3.7 (two pieces)	Cystic-solid	No mention	Median sternotomy	Death (15)
2012 (13)	Hemoptysis, chest pain	Male	32	/	Cystic	Right	Median sternotomy	24
2012 (14)	Chest pain, mild cough, blood-tinged sputum	Female	31	7×3×4	Cystic-solid	Left	Left thoracoscopy	/
2013 (15)	Cervical mass	Female	22	2.4×3.8	Cystic	Cervical	Cervical approach	48
2014 (16)	Dyspnea, stridor	Male	18	16×12×9	Cystic	Left	Median sternotomy	/
2014 (17)	Chest pain, cough, fever	Male	15	7×4.5	Cystic-solid	Right	Median sternotomy	96
2014 (17)	Throat discomfort, neck swelling	Female	16	6	Cystic-solid	Median	Median sternotomy	6
2015 (18)	Cough, chest pain, shortness of breath	Male	17	7.6×7×5.8	Solid	Left	Median sternotomy	/