A 70-year-old asymptomatic man, who underwent whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose, was found to have a lesion in the sigmoid colon region. Furthermore, colonscopy examination revealed a polyp in a distance 25 cm to anus. Biopsy of the polyp was performed and histopathological study showed to be villotubular adenoma. However, the possibility of malignancy can't be ruled out. A low anterior resection for rectosigmoid colon was then performed and a 3.5×2.4×1.5 cm mass was found. Histopathological study showed an adenocarcinoma with villotubular adenoma. The findings in this case suggest that colonic adenoma detected by PET may accompany with malignant change. Colonic adenomas are considered to have potential for malignant transformation. Therefore, it is noteworthy that PET can be used in the detection of adenoma with malignant change.