Abstract
Although gastric juvenile polyposis (GJP) often coexists with gastric cancer, a preoperative accurate diagnosis is still difficult to obtain. A 70-year-old woman was referred for epigastralgia and anemia. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy with a conventional endoscope showed numerous gastric polyps with no cancerous findings. Magnifying endoscopy with narrow-band imaging (M-NBI) showed cancerous findings, and a target biopsy revealed adenocarcinoma. Histopathological findings after endoscopic resection confirmed a diagnosis of juvenile polyposis with intramucosal adenocarcinoma. Genetic analyses revealed a germline pathogenic variant of SMAD4. A target biopsy using M-NBI and endoscopic resection proved useful for confirming the preoperative diagnosis of coexisting cancerous lesions in GJP.
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