Table 1.

Reported cases of pancreatic pleural effusion associated with pancreatic neoplasm

No	Author	Year	Age	Sex	Symptom	Tumor size (mm)	Tumor location	Pseudocyst	Stenosis of the MPD	Preoperative diagnosis of fistula	Fluid amylase (IU/l)	Treatment	Histological type	Prognosis (month)
1	Sankarankutty et al. [5]	1978	40	M	Dyspnea orthopnea	60	Pb	No	N/A	No	19,800	TP	IDC	8 alive
2	Kuroda et al. [6]	1983	37	F	Right back pain	150	Pb	Yes	No	No	975	DP	Mucinous cystadenocarcinoma	N/A
3	England et al. [7]	1988	64	M	Epigastric pain Vomitting	12	Pb	No	N/A	No	9600	None	oncocytic carcinoma	0.8 death
4	Shimaoka et al. [8]	2003	70	M	Dyspnea	12	Pb	No	Yes	No	22,665	DP	IDC	60 alive
5	Sugiyama et al. [9]	2010	63	M	Dyspnea Back pain	20	Ph	Yes	Yes	Yes	30,994	PpPD	IDC	13 alive
6	Cushen et al. [10]	2012	67	F	Dyspnea Chest pain	N/A	Pt	Yes	N/A	Yes	1,716,000	DP	IPMN Low-grade dysplasia	18 alive
7	Miyamoto et al. [11]	2017	62	M	Dyspnea Back pain	10	Pb	Yes	Yes	Yes	26,775	PD	IDC	19 alive
8	Saito et al. [12]	2020	69	M	Dyspnea	15	Pt	No	Yes	No	26,229	DP + partial gastrectomy	IDC	35 death
9	Our case	2020	51	M	Dyspnea	19	Pt	Yes	Yes	Yes	36,854	DP	PNET G2	33 alive

MPD main pancreatic duct, Pb pancreatic body, N/A not available, TP total pancreatectomy, IDC invasive ductal carcinomas, DP distal pancreatectomy, Ph pancreatic head, PpPD pylorus-preserving pancreatoduodenectomy, Pt pancreatic tail, IPMN intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm, PNET G2 pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor grade 2