Society guideline links: Adrenal incidentaloma

Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately.

●(See "Society guideline links: Diagnosis and treatment of Cushing syndrome".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Primary aldosteronism".)

●(See "Society guideline links: Adrenal cancer".)

International

●World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (WFUMB): Position paper on the management incidental findings – Adrenal incidentaloma (2020)

●International Consultation on Urological Diseases (ICUD) and European Association of Urology (EAU): International consultation on minimally invasive surgery in urology – Laparoscopic and robotic adrenalectomy (2017)

●International Pediatric Endosurgery Group (IPEG): Guidelines for the surgical treatment of adrenal masses in children (2010)

Canada

●Canadian Urological Association (CUA): Guideline for the diagnosis, management, and followup of the incidentally discovered adrenal mass (2023)

United States

●American Association of Endocrine Surgeons (AAES): Guidelines for adrenalectomy (2022)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on adrenal mass evaluation (revised 2021)

●American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE): Disease state clinical review on the evaluation of incidentally discovered adrenal masses (2019)

●ACR: A white paper on the management of incidental adrenal masses (2017)

●Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES): Guidelines for the minimally invasive treatment of adrenal pathology (2013)

Europe

●European Society of Endocrinology (ESE) and European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumors (ENSAT): Clinical practice guidelines on the management of adrenocortical carcinoma in adults (2018)

●International Consultation on Urological Diseases (ICUD) and European Association of Urology (EAU): International consultation on minimally invasive surgery in urology – Laparoscopic and robotic adrenalectomy (2017)

●ESE and ENSAT: Clinical practice guideline for the management of adrenal incidentalomas (2016)

United Kingdom

●British Association of Endocrine and Thyroid Surgeons (BAETS): Adrenal surgery practice guidance for the UK (2016)

Australia–New Zealand

●Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA): Carcinomas of the adrenal cortex – Structured reporting protocol, 1st edition (2020)

Japan

●Japan Endocrine Society (JES): Opinion on new diagnostic criteria of adrenal subclinical Cushing's syndrome (2018)

●Japanese Society of Endourology and ESWL (JSEE): Guidelines for urological laparoscopic surgery (2009)