Radiopaedia Helpers

Adjectival Hyphens

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"CT delineates fracture morphology pre-operatively."

Line 6:38 · 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-operatively.'.

Biographical Date Format

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"Named after Frederic J Cotton (1869 - 1939), orthopaedic surgeon, Boston City Hospital, Boston ^1,4."

Line 11:16 · In a biographical citation, the date be correctly formatted: '<strong>Frederic J Cotton</strong> (1869 '

Biographical Name

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"Named after Frederic J Cotton (1869 - 1939), orthopaedic surgeon, Boston City Hospital, Boston ^1,4."

Line 11:16 · In a biographical citation, the name should be formatted correctly: '<strong>Frederic J Cotton</strong> (1869'

Number Spacing

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"Named after Frederic J Cotton (1869 - 1939), orthopaedic surgeon, Boston City Hospital, Boston ^1,4."

Line 11:52 · In a number range, there should not be spaces around the hyphen ('1869 - 1939').

List Caps

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"Pilon fracture ¹"

Line 14:15 · In general, we don't start a list item with a capital letter. Exceptions are proper nouns.

Semicolons

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"The incidence is increasing, particularly in the older, predominantly female population; the typical mechanism is a fall from standing in an osteoporotic person, i.e. a fragility fracture ⁵."

Line 3:91 · Use semicolons judiciously.

"Young patients undergo open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF); arthroscopy can identify associated cartilage injury to the talar dome ⁵."

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