Abstract:Objective To investigate the clinicopathological features of missed synchronous multiple early gastric cancer (SMEGC). Methods Clinical and pathological data of 10 missed SMEGC patients in Beijing Friendship Hospital collected from January 2015 to December 2019 were reviewed for the clinicopathological and endoscopic features. Results Ten missed SMEGC patients were all over 60 years old, and 6 of them were males. Six patients had family history of tumor and 6 had comorbidity (hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia, cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases). In terms of endoscopic and pathological manifestations, missed lesions of 6 cases were not smaller than the initial lesions, and more than half of the missed lesions had the same vertical location in the stomach (6/10), infiltration depth (8/10), histological classification (9/10), atrophic (8/10) and intestinal metaplasia (8/10) as the initial lesions. Conclusion Physicians should be aware of the possibility of missed lesions during the first endoscopic treatment and the follow-up, especially at the same vertical location of the initial lesions in elderly males with family history of tumor and comorbidity.