Abstract:Objective To summarize the pathological properties and pathogenetic mechanism of abnormal polypoid nodule scar (PNS) after endoscopic thermoprobe therapy, and explore its clinical processing strategy.Methods We reviewed the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of 7 patients with PNS who underwent endoscopic argon plasma coagulation (APC), endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR), and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) for gastric mucosal hyperplastic lesions from March 2015 to March 2019. At the same time, relevant literatures were searched and reviewed in Chinese databases such as CNKI, Wanfang Data Knowledge Service Platform and China Biomedical Database, as well as foreign databases such as PubMed and Science Direct Online (SDOL) to summarize the pathological characteristics and follow-up results of PNS.Results Clinical data: The incidence of PNS after endoscopic heat injury treatment of mucosal hyperplastic lesions in this department was 1.21% (7/579), five of them were male and two were female; Postoperative polypoid nodular scar was found in all cases, which were located in the gastric antrum. Among of them, 4 cases received additional ESD surgery, and the postoperative incision margin pathology was negative, but in the postoperative follow-up review, polypoid nodules were found again in the surgical scar. The other three PNS patients had no additional treatment. In one of them, polypoid nodules were found untreated at 3 months after surgery, and the nodules disappeared at 6 months after surgery. Literature retrieval results: There is no relevant literature in the Chinese database. Two relevant literatures were retrieved from Science Direct Online (SDOL) and PubMed. One paper was a case report of PNS after ESD.The other paper was a multi-center study of PNS after ESD operation, and the information from the previous literature was included in the later literature. According to the review of multi-center studies, the overall incidence of PNS after ESD was 1.23%, and the incidence of PNS varied from 0.15% to 11.40% in each center. The primary tumor lesions of all patients with PNS were located in the distal part of the stomach. Long-term follow-up showed no recurrence of malignant tumors, and PNS disappeared in 17.86% of the cases after a mean follow-up of 18 months.Conclusion As long as the primary lesion is radical resection and the PNS is histologically only showing regenerative and proliferative tissue, it should be regarded as benign lesion. In addition to regular review, any type of intervention may not be required, and recurrence may still occur even if endoscopic resected again .