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Strong List Colon Position

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"T1: hypointense"

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"T2: hyperintense"

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"T1 C+ (Gd): no enhancement ¹"

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"FLAIR: may or may not suppress"

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"delayed FLAIR C+: enhancement ¹¹"

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Words We Never Use

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"Care should be taken not to mistake delayed FLAIR enhancement for non-delayed T1 enhancement seen in most chordomas ¹¹. Additionally, it can be challenging to identify on FLAIR due to the presence of flow artefact in the CSF of the pre-pontine cistern due to basilar artery pulsation ^ref."

Line 23:220 · Radiopaedia always uses 'artifact' rather than 'artefact'.

Adjectival Hyphens

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"Care should be taken not to mistake delayed FLAIR enhancement for non-delayed T1 enhancement seen in most chordomas ¹¹. Additionally, it can be challenging to identify on FLAIR due to the presence of flow artefact in the CSF of the pre-pontine cistern due to basilar artery pulsation ^ref."

Line 23:247 · 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-pontine'.

Eponym Apostrophe

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"Unlike chordomas which are often symptomatic due to brainstem or cranial nerve compression, patients with ecchordosis physaliphora are usually asymptomatic. They are found in ~2% of autopsies ¹. Due to delayed FLAIR-enhancement, they may be more conspicuous on delayed contrast-enhanced MRI of the inner ear and may be found as an incidental finding on MRI hydrops imaging of the inner ear, e.g. for Ménière's disease, as an intensely enhancing structure on delayed contrast-enhanced FLAIR ¹¹."

Line 6:419 · Radiopaedia prefers the non-possessive eponym: 'Ménière's disease'.

Biographical Lifespan

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"History and etymology"

Line 24:1 · A bold element in the History and etymology section should be a person; it would be useful to have their lifespan details: '<h4>History and etymology</h4> Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), a German physician and pathologist first described a similar lesion in 1857 and mistook it as a degenerative process affecting the spheno-occipital synchondrosis with cartilaginous components and termed it "ecchondrosis physaliphora" which comes from the Greek "chondros" meaning cartilage and "physalis" meaning bubble. Friedrich von Muller '

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