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Adjectival Hyphens

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"Pre-contoured anatomical or stiff plates can be used. The latter requires intraoperative contouring. They can be used with or without lag screws to cause a buttress effect meaning one fragment is pushed against the other and into a reduced fracture position especially during axial loading."

Line 4:4 · Only use medical adjectival hyphens where the letters at the end and start of the compound word are the same, e.g. post-transplant. In this case, don't use the hyphen: 'Pre-contoured'.

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"Chauffeur fracture"

Line 8:8 · In general, we don't start a list item with a capital letter. Exceptions are proper nouns.

"Barton fracture"

Line 9:8 · In general, we don't start a list item with a capital letter. Exceptions are proper nouns.

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