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Lint: inflammatory-bowel-disease-summary

Acronyms
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"Inflammatory bowel disease is a generic term used to describe diseases of the GI tract that have an inflammatory cause. Crohn disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are the commonest causes of inflammatory bowel disease."

Line 2:99 · 'GI' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.

"blood tests: raised inflammatory markers, e.g. CRP, ESR"

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List Caps
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"Crohns may present with extra-intestinal features"

Line 22:8 · In general, we don't start a list item with a capital letter. Exceptions are proper nouns.
Prefix Hyphens
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"Crohns may present with extra-intestinal features"

Line 22:32 · A prefix takes a hyphen only to avoid a duplicate letter: 'extra-intestinal'.
Headings Valid
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Expected headings

  • H1 Reference article
  • H1 Summary
  • H1 Role of imaging
  • H1 Radiographic features
  • H1 See also

"This is a basic article for medical students and other non-radiologists"

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"Ultrasound"

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"CT"

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"MRI"

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Semicolons
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"This is a summary article; read more in our article on inflammatory bowel disease."

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