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Case Presentation: We report a rectal SuSA in a 57-year-old Japanese woman with a 30-month history of UC and a history of follicular lymphoma. UC was in a mild, resolving phase at the time of detection. A 7 mm pale, sessile rectal lesion was completely removed by cold snare polypectomy. Histopathologically, the lesion showed superficial serration confined to the upper one-third to one-half of the glands, adenoma-like deep glands, and a basal-to-middle proliferative zone. No ectopic crypt formation, basal crypt dilation, L-\/T-shaped crypt architecture, or adjacent dysplasia was identified. Molecular analysis revealed a KRAS p.Q61H mutation and PTPRK::RSPO3 fusion retaining the RSPO3 coding region. The morphological and molecular features were consistent with sporadic SuSA rather than inflammatory bowel disease-associated non-conventional serrated dysplasia. The short duration of UC and mild, resolving inflammation did not support a causal relationship between UC and SuSA development. To our knowledge, this is the first genetically characterized case of SuSA in a patient with UC in Japan. Conclusions: This case expands the limited molecular data on SuSA arising in UC. Whether SuSA occurs more frequently in patients with UC than in the general population remains unknown and will require population-based and multicenter clinicopathological and molecular studies.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/diagnostics16193147","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,28]],"date-time":"2026-09-28T11:35:59Z","timestamp":1790595359000},"page":"3147","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Isolated Superficially Serrated Adenoma in Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Report with Molecular Analysis in Japan"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1041-0391","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mitsuhiro","family":"Tachibana","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Shimada General Medical Center, Shimada 427-8502, Shizuoka, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sayaka","family":"Choki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Gastroenterology, Shimada General Medical Center, Shimada 427-8502, Shizuoka, Japan"},{"name":"Department of Gastroenterology, Ebina General Hospital, Ebina 243-0432, Kanagawa, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-9486-0823","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ryo","family":"Sugimoto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Molecular Diagnostic Pathology, School of Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Shiwa 028-3695, Iwate, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7054-7528","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Masahiro","family":"Matsushita","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Gastroenterology, Shimada General Medical Center, Shimada 427-8502, Shizuoka, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4896-3557","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tamotsu","family":"Sugai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Molecular Diagnostic Pathology, School of Medicine, Iwate Medical University, Shiwa 028-3695, Iwate, Japan"},{"name":"Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Southern Tohoku General Hospital, K\u014driyama 963-8052, Fukushima, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1588","DOI":"10.1038\/s41379-018-0069-8","article-title":"Superficially serrated adenoma: A proposal for a novel subtype of colorectal serrated lesion","volume":"31","author":"Hashimoto","year":"2018","journal-title":"Mod. 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