Surgery for Killian-Jamieson diverticulum: a report of two cases

Surgical Case Reports

Table 1 Previous reports regarding the treatment for Killian-Jamieson diverticulum

Study	Age (years)	Sex	Location	Size (cm)	Treatment	Complication	Duration of follow-up (months)
Rodgers et al. [6]	53	Female	Left	N/A	Diverticulectomy + cricopharyngeal myotomy	None	24
Lee et al. [7]	55	Female	Left	1.6	Endoscopic diverticulotomy	None	3
Tang et al. [8]	51	Female	Left	1.5	Endoscopic diverticulotomy	None	2
Boisvert et al. [9]	69	Male	Bilateral	4.4 (right)/3.5 (left)	Diverticulectomy + esophageal myotomy	N/A	2
Kitazawa et al. [10]	53	Female	Left	4.5	Diverticulectomy	None	2
Chea et al. [11]	52	Female	Right	N/A	Diverticulopexy	N/A	6
Undavia et al. [12]	62	Female	Left	2.5	Diverticulectomy	None	N/A
Kim et al. [13]	68	Male	Right	10	Diverticulectomy + esophageal myotomy	None	6
Mimatsu et al. [14]	74	Female	Bilateral	1.5 (right)/4 (left)	Diverticulectomy	N/A	24
Jung and Cho [15]	54	Female	Right	N/A	Diverticulectomy + cricopharyngeal myotomy	N/A	24
Saylam et al. [16]	18	Female	Right	2	Diverticulectomy	None	12
Chang et al. [17]	46	Female	Left	5	Endoscopic diverticulotomy	None	6
	32	Male	Left	N/A	Endoscopic diverticulotomy	None	6
Bock et al. [18]	49	Male	Right	N/A	Diverticulectomy	None	12
Siow et al. [19]	49	Female	Left	N/A	Diverticulectomy	None	3
Shambayati et al. [20]	2	Female	Right	N/A	Diverticulectomy	N/A	Several months
Yun et al. [21]	88	Male	Left	5.4	Endoscopic diverticulotomy	N/A	1
Stewart et al. [2]	69	Male	Right	N/A	Diverticulectomy	None	2
Yang and Draganov [22]	71	Female	Left	2.5	Endoscopic diverticulotomy	None	2
Present study	58	Female	Left	2.5	Diverticulectomy + cricopharyngeal and esophageal myotomy	Delayed staple line leakage	5
	77	Female	Left	2	Diverticulopexy + cricopharyngeal and esophageal myotomy	None	24