Abstract
Uterine artery embolization (UAE) for symptomatic uterine leiomyoma has been addressed in guidelines worldwide; however, evidence-based guidelines providing recommendations based on rating the certainty in the evidence with the modern methodology does not yet exist for UAE. The Japanese Society of Interventional Radiology has developed and published practice guidelines for interventional procedures since 2008 and is now developing guidelines for UAE using the latest methodology of clinical practice guidelines. In this article, the characteristics of guidelines for UAE in diverse countries and the recent trend of the methodology of the development of guidelines are addressed.
