Table 1.

Thoracoschisis: a review of literature.

Reference	Year	Gender	Defect location	Content	Associated malformation	Survival
Davies et al. [1]	1977	Female	Left third intercostal	Left liver lobe, stomach, transverse colon	No left forearm, syndactyly, dextrocardia	Alive
Bamforth et al. [15]	1992	Female	Left sixth rib	Left liver lobe	Left Poland anomaly, scapula hypoplastic, no humerus, no ulna, no radius, dextrocardia	Alive
Derbent et al. [6]	2001	Female	Right second to fourth rib	Liver, intestine	LBWC, other deformations not able to be defined	Intrauterine Death
Biri et al. [2]	2006	Female	Left	Left liver lobe	Left forearm agenesis, right arm-hand agenesis	Died at Birth
Karaman et al. [7]	2011	Male	Left eighth intercostal	Liver, transverse colon, omentum	None	Alive
Bhattacharyya et al. [5]	2012	Female	Right	Riedel liver lobe, stomach, small intestine	Agenesis of the right upper limb, right upper quadrant abdominal wall defect	Died at Birth
Eck et al. [16]	2015	Male	Right fifth–eight ribs	Liver, intestine, omentum	Right fourth digit abnormality	Alive
McKay et al. [17]	2015	Female	Left eighth intercostal	Riedel liver lobe, omentum	Positional deformity of left hand & palmar contractures of the fingers	Alive
Seleim et al. [8]	2015	Male	Left 4th intercostal	Riedel liver lobe, stomach, intestine	None	Died 2 days post operative
Travers et al. [9]	2016	Female	Left rib aplasia	Mesenchymal hamartoma	None	Alive
de Grijs et al. [10]	2017	Female	Left of fourth–sixth ribs	Liver, stomach, transverse colon	None	Alive
Vujovic et al. [4]	2017	Female	Right first intercostal	Riedel liver lobe	Hypoplasia of the right arm and incomplete hand duplication	Alive
Hanafi et al. [14]	2017	Male	Left third and fourth ribs	Left liver lobe, stomach, spleen, intestine	Radial aplasia, unilateral polydactyly and syndactyly	Died at DOL 3
Harris et al. [11]	2017	Male	Left Ribs	Liver	None	Alive