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Lint: hypophysitis

Adjectival Hyphens
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"post-infection 6"

Line 44:8 · 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-infection'.

"post-vaccination 7"

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Hybrid Imaging Slash
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"FDG-PET/CT is useful when systemic infiltrative disease or malignancy is suspected, as it may identify multifocal disease activity and guide biopsy to more accessible sites."

Line 63:8 · Hybrid imaging takes a hyphen, not a slash: 'PET/CT'.
List Caps
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"Langerhans cell histiocytosis"

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Semicolons
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"The true incidence is unknown; the estimated background incidence is approximately 1 in 7-9 million per year. Recognition of novel subtypes (e.g. immunotherapy-related hypophysitis) has led to increasing diagnosis rates in recent years 1."

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"Many aspects of management are guided by disease severity, mass effect, and underlying aetiology as well as whether the hypophysitis is primary or part of a systemic illness; these are discussed separately. There are, however, common features."

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There Is
suggestion

"Many aspects of management are guided by disease severity, mass effect, and underlying aetiology as well as whether the hypophysitis is primary or part of a systemic illness; these are discussed separately. There are, however, common features."

Line 65:211 · Don't start a sentence with 'There are'.