Bone-RADS™

Quality assurance for bone lesion screening

ACR Bone-Reporting and Data System (Bone-RADS™)

Current Release

Bone Tumor Risk Stratification and Management System: A Consensus Guideline from the ACR Bone Reporting and Data System Committee is available on the web and for download from JACR®.

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Bone-RADS is a quality assurance tool designed to standardize scoring system, imaging reporting templates and management recommendations for potentially neoplastic bone lesions. Furthermore, imaging reporting templates which can be used to evaluate and describe bone lesions seen at radiography, CT and MRI.

Based on this risk assessment, appropriate recommendations for patient management are presented. A review of descriptive terminology including supportive data and evidence basis for the Bone-RADS scoring system and management recommendations can be found in the committee’s ACR® White Paper on Potentially Neoplastic Bone Lesions.


Further Reading:

Bone-RADS v2023 Assessment Categories With Predictive Features

Putting Bone-RADS to Work

  • Template

    Radiography Imaging Report Template for Potentially Neoplastic Bone Lesions

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  • Template

    Radiography Imaging Report Template for Potentially Neoplastic Bone Lesions

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  • Statement

    Guidelines for Specialist Referral for Newly Identified Bone Lesions

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Reporting and Data Systems (RADS) by the American College of Radiology are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available by using our permission form. Contact us: rads@acr.org