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We evaluated the prevalence of FGPs with dysplasia (FGPD) and described associated clinical and endoscopic features in a Taiwanese tertiary-care cohort. Methods: We retrospectively searched institutional pathology archives for all gastric biopsy or polypectomy specimens diagnosed as FGP between January 2000 and December 2024 and mapped these specimens to unique patients using medical record numbers. Candidate dysplastic cases underwent slide review by gastrointestinal pathologists to confirm FGPD and grade dysplasia as low- or high-grade according to standard gastric dysplasia criteria. Cases were classified as syndromic if a hereditary polyposis syndrome was documented; otherwise, they were classified as sporadic. Clinical and endoscopic variables were abstracted from electronic medical records. Patient-level prevalence estimates among patients with FGP are reported with exact 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Results: Among 35,806 unique patients with histologically confirmed FGP, 25 FGPD cases were confirmed (21 sporadic, 4 syndromic). The patient-level prevalence of sporadic FGPD was 0.059% (21\/35,806; 95% CI: 0.036\u20130.090%). Among sporadic cases, dysplasia was low-grade in 19 (90.5%) and high-grade in 2 (9.5%). Sporadic cases occurred at a median age of 48 years (interquartile range [IQR]: 37\u201363.5 years), and 57.1% were female. Documented PPI exposure before the index FGPD endoscopy was present in 33.3% of patients (median documented duration: 36 months [IQR: 12\u2013125]). No case had documented current Helicobacter pylori infection at the index evaluation. Endoscopically, sporadic FGPDs were commonly multiple, sessile, located in the gastric body\/fundus, and small (median size: 0.5 cm [IQR: 0.3\u20130.575]). Conclusions: Sporadic FGPD was exceedingly rare in this 25-year Taiwanese cohort and was predominantly low-grade. Although typically small and body\/fundus-predominant, FGPs with erythema or surface irregularity\u2014particularly with irregular microvascular patterns on narrow-band imaging\u2014should prompt histologic assessment to exclude dysplasia.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/cancers18040616","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,13]],"date-time":"2026-02-13T12:06:59Z","timestamp":1770984419000},"page":"616","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Dysplastic Transformation in Sporadic Fundic Gland Polyps: Prevalence, Clinical and Endoscopic Characteristics in an Asian Cohort"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"given":"Ming-Jung","family":"Meng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan 33305, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8888-7985","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tsung-Hsing","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuan 33305, Taiwan"},{"name":"College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, No. 5, Fu-Hsin St., Guei-Shan, Taoyuan 33305, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5092-4434","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Shih-Chiang","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomic Pathology, College of Medicine, Linkou Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 33305, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,2,13]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1524","DOI":"10.1038\/ajg.2009.139","article-title":"The current spectrum of gastric polyps: A 1-year national study of over 120,000 patients","volume":"104","author":"Carmack","year":"2009","journal-title":"Am. 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