title: The American College of Radiology strategy for managing incidental findings on abdominal computed tomography.
abstract: There has been a dramatically increased awareness of the substantial clinical challenges posed by incidental findings found on cross-sectional imaging. In 2006, an Incidental Findings Committee was organized under the Body Imaging Commission in the American College of Radiology to create a consistent and rational approach to these findings. This article describes the formation, process of developing recommendations, and future tasks of this committee.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 619 South 19th Street, N348, Birmingham, AL 35249, USA. lberland@gmail.com
authors.forename: Lincoln L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Berland
mesh_terms: D032921:Consensus; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011860:Radiography, Abdominal / Q000379:methods*; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States