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Adjectival Hyphens

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"prevelance of diffuse goitres decreases with age (peaks in pre-menopausal females) ⁵"

Line 11:67 · 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-menopausal'.

Eponym Apostrophe

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"Patients may present with a visible or palpable neck mass, upper airway symptoms (e.g. voice change, cough, dyspnoea), globus or choking sensation, and/or dysphagia ^10,11. Pemberton's sign may be positive ¹¹."

Line 31:201 · Radiopaedia prefers the non-possessive eponym: 'Pemberton's sign'.

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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

"Complications"

Line 67:1 · "Complications" should be H2, not H1.

Semicolons

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"Note, that these volumes may be considered conservative by some authors and higher thresholds (adult male: >38.7 mL; adult females: >28.6 mL) have been proposed to account for generally increasing age, and increasing height and weight of the population (c. 2025) ¹⁴."

Line 23:119 · Use semicolons judiciously.

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