Acr White Paper Adnexal

These recommendations represent an update of those provided in our previous jacr 2013 white paper.

Acr white paper adnexal. To provide general guidance for managing incidentally discovered masses with the understanding that specific patient care will vary depending on each individual s circumstances the clinical environment available resources and the judgment of the practitioner. A white paper of the acr ovarian adnexal reporting and data system committee. A white paper of the acr incidental findings committee the acr incidental findings committee ifc presents recommendations for managing adnexal masses incidentally detected on ct and mri. In the summer of 2015 under the supervision of the american college of radiology the ovarian adnexal reporting and data system o rads committee was formed with the purpose of creating a standardized lexicon for describing the imaging characteristics of ovarian and adnexal masses and applying it to a risk stratification and management system for evaluation of malignancy.

Ovarian adnexal reporting lexicon for ultrasound. A white paper of the acr ovarian adnexal reporting and data system committee journal of the american college of radiology vol. This represents the first of 4 such papers from the acr incidental findings committee ii which used a consensus method based on repeated reviews and revisions and a collective review and. Andreotti rf 1 timmerman d 2 benacerraf br 3 bennett gl 4 bourne t 5 brown dl 6 coleman bg 7 frates mc 8 froyman w 2 goldstein sr 9 hamper.

This white paper describes adnexal ovarian and paraovarian incidental findings found on ct and mri in nonpregnant postmenarchal patients in whom no adnexal disorder is clinically known or suspected. These recommendations represent an update of those provided in our previous jacr 2013 white paper. Management of incidental adnexal findings on ct and mri. The acr incidental findings committee ifc generated its first white paper in 2010 addressing four algorithms for managing incidental pancreatic adrenal kidney and liver findings.

10 variation in downstream relative costs associated with incidental ovarian cysts on ultrasound. This is an ongoing. What is the responsible use of information that nobody asked for fletcher and pignone 2008. For this white paper one category of incidental find ing is the adnexal benign appearing cyst which is de fined as 1 an oval or round 2 unilocular mass of uniform fluid signal and attenuation 3 with a regular or imperceptible wall 4 without solid areas or mural nodules and 5 10 cm in maximum diameter.

Ovarian adnexal reporting lexicon for ultrasound.