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Adjectival Hyphens

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"Surgical excision is the mainstay of treatment. Pre-operative embolisation or vascular control may be considered to reduce intraoperative bleeding risk ⁶."

Line 50:52 · 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-operative'.

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"These tumours generally exhibit benign behaviour. However, local recurrence may occur if resection is incomplete. Malignant transformation is exceedingly rare, estimated in ~5% (range 2–10%) of head and neck paragangliomas ⁸."

Line 51:189 · Use a hyphen-minus ('-') instead of an en-dash ('–').

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"adjacent/near the thyroid gland (known as thyroid paraganglioma) ⁹"

Line 20:57 · Generally, don't use bold in text: '<strong>thyroid paraganglioma</strong>'

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