Fleischner Society Guidelines for Incidental Pulmonary Nodules
Provides guidelines for management of solid and subsolid pulmonary nodules.
Use in patients ≥35 years old with incidental pulmonary nodules on CT imaging. Do not use for lung cancer screening or in patients with known primary cancer or immunosuppression. Use most suspicious nodule as guide to management.
Advice
The Fleischner Society recommends that incidental nodules in patients <35 years old be managed on a case-by-case basis, as infectious causes are more likely than cancer (and therefore serial CT to monitor should be limited).