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Lint: hypoparathyroidism

hypoparathyroidism
Adjectival Hyphens
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"metabolic causes, e.g. Wilson's disease, haemochromatosis, maternal hypercalcaemia, post-severe burns 5"

Line 30:106 · 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-severe'.
Eponym Apostrophe
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"metabolic causes, e.g. Wilson's disease, haemochromatosis, maternal hypercalcaemia, post-severe burns 5"

Line 30:34 · Radiopaedia prefers the non-possessive eponym: 'Wilson's disease'.
List Caps
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"Pseudohypoparathyroidism"

Line 62:11 · In general, we don't start a list item with a capital letter. Exceptions are proper nouns.

"Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism"

Line 63:11 · In general, we don't start a list item with a capital letter. Exceptions are proper nouns.
Oxford Comma
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"emotional lability, depression and anxiety, psychosis"

Line 7:18 · Use the Oxford comma in 'lability, depression and anxiety'.
There Is
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"There are a number of causes of hypoparathyroidism:"

Line 11:4 · Don't start a sentence with 'There are'.
Semicolons
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"most common; 75% of cases 5"

Line 20:19 · Use semicolons judiciously.
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