Acr White Paper Thyroid Nodules

The committees published the results of the first two efforts in 2015.

Acr white paper thyroid nodules. Determine impact of following all algorithm steps. This white paper describes consensus recommendations representing this committee s review of the literature and their practice experience. Develop management guidelines for nodules that are discovered incidentally on ct mri pet or ultrasound. Jacr white paper aim and aims of project acr white paper algorithm for managing itn aims to provide practical approach to itn and reduce unnecessary thyroid nodule workup project.

This white paper describes consensus recom mendations representing this committee s review of the literature and their practice experience. The acr formed the incidental thyroid findings committee to derive a practical approach to managing itns on ct mri nuclear medicine and ultrasound studies. In our practice ultrasound readers perceived a lack of acr white paper recommendations for workup of incidental thyroid nodules itns published in 2015 leading to an excessive number of diagnostic ultrasounds. Determine if algorithm is effective in triaging nodules to thyroid ultrasound when focus limited to nodule size and patient age secondary aim.

But the paper is generating. Incidental thyroid nodules are commonly detected with ct and mr. In 2012 the acr convened committees to 1 provide recommendations for reporting incidental thyroid nodules 2 develop a set of standard terms lexicon for ultrasound reporting and 3 propose a ti rads on the basis of the lexicon. Your continued use of the site constitutes your acceptance of use of cookies on this site.

The american college of radiology acr has issued a new white paper aimed at reducing the number of incidentally discovered thyroid nodules referred for further workup. In response acr committees were formed to accomplish three goals. Acr white paper aims to cut thyroid nodule workups dedicated to the mission of bringing free or low cost educational materials and information to the global ultrasound community.