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Lint: diffuse-axonal-injury

Adjectival Hyphens
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"Over the first few days post-injury, the degree of surrounding oedema will typically increase, although by 3 months FLAIR changes will have largely resolved 7. In contrast, SWI changes usually take longer to resolve, with substantial resolution by 12 months post-injury 7. This makes sense, as oedema resolves faster than haemorrhage."

Line 23:28 · 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: 'post-injury,'.

"Over the first few days post-injury, the degree of surrounding oedema will typically increase, although by 3 months FLAIR changes will have largely resolved 7. In contrast, SWI changes usually take longer to resolve, with substantial resolution by 12 months post-injury 7. This makes sense, as oedema resolves faster than haemorrhage."

Line 23:273 · 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: 'post-injury'.
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"Diffuse axonal injury and diffuse vascular injury (DVI) are related and often co-existent entities, possibly lying on a single spectrum of diffuse brain injury 10. Diffuse vascular injury is a term more commonly used in neuropathology rather than neuroradiology literature, and describes traumatic shearing of penetrating blood vessels, usually accompanying traumatic axonal shearing 10. Generally, in the neuroradiology literature, diffuse axonal injury encompasses features of diffuse vascular injury. Thus, this article covers features of both entities together."

Line 4:30 · Generally, don't use bold in text: '<strong>diffuse vascular injury (DVI)</strong>'
Headings Case
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"MR spectroscopy"

Line 26:5 · 'MR spectroscopy' should use sentence-style capitalization.
Acronyms
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"MRS can be of benefit in identifying patients with grade I injury, which may be inapparent on other sequences. Features typically demonstrate elevation of the choline peak and reduction of NAA 3,11."

Line 27:210 · 'NAA' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.
Headings Valid
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Expected headings

  • H1 Terminology
  • H1 Usage
  • H1 Epidemiology
  • H2 Risk factors
  • H2 Associations
  • H1 Clinical presentation
  • H2 Complications
  • H1 Diagnosis
  • H2 Diagnostic criteria
  • H2 Diagnostic clues
  • H1 Pathology
  • H2 Aetiology
  • H2 Location
  • H2 Classification
  • H2 Macroscopic appearance
  • H2 Microscopic appearance
  • H2 Immunophenotype
  • H2 Markers
  • H2 Genetics
  • H1 Radiographic features
  • H2 Plain radiograph
  • H2 Mammography
  • H2 Antenatal ultrasound
  • H2 Transoesophageal echocardiography
  • H2 Ultrasound
  • H2 CT
  • H3 Dual-energy CT
  • H2 Angiography (DSA)
  • H2 MRI
  • H2 CT/MRI
  • H2 Nuclear medicine
  • H3 PET-CT
  • H3 PET-MRI
  • H1 Radiology report
  • H1 Treatment and prognosis
  • H2 Complications
  • H1 History and etymology
  • H1 Differential diagnosis
  • H2 Clinical differential diagnosis
  • H1 Practical points
  • H1 See also

"Associations"

Line 11:1 · "Associations" is under the wrong parent heading (found under "Pathology").

"MR spectroscopy"

Line 26:1 · "MR spectroscopy" is not a recognised heading for this article type.
Semicolons
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"The patients at risk of diffuse axonal injury are the same cohort who suffer traumatic brain injury; young men are over-represented."

Line 6:103 · Use semicolons judiciously.