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Lint: cystic-adventitial-disease

Strong List Colon Position
error

"T1: individual lesions are of variable signal dependent on mucoid content 4"

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"T2/STIR: individual lesions are high signal 1,4"

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Adjectival Hyphens
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"Digital subtraction angiography may demonstrate curvilinear/spiral narrowing of vessels with a paucity of collaterals and an absence of post-stenotic dilatation. When cystic lesions are large and eccentric they may displace the artery to one side, the so-called "scimitar sign" 4."

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List Caps
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"Baker cyst - should demonstrate communication with the knee joint via the semimembranosus-gastrocnemius bursa"

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There Is
suggestion

"Cystic adventitial disease typically affects young to middle-aged individuals without evidence of atherosclerosis or other systemic vascular diseases 12. There is a recognised male predilection with an M:F ratio of ~15:1 9."

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Oxford Comma
suggestion

"Unilateral popliteal artery involvement is most common (~85%) with external iliac, common femoral, radial and ulnar arteries also being reported as being involved 12."

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Semicolons
suggestion

"Conservative management may be appropriate depending on symptom severity, and some cases resolve without intervention 13. Percutaneous cyst aspiration using ultrasound or CT is a minimally invasive treatment which can have durable results 14,15,18. Endovascular treatments including angioplasty and stenting have had mixed results 13,16. Surgical management is usually definitive but much more invasive; multiple techniques have been employed including exarterectomy and excision and bypass of the affected segment 13."

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Biographical Lifespan
suggestion

"History and etymology"

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