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Lint: leptomeningeal-metastases

Commas
suggestion

"Clinical presentation is varied, but most commonly includes headache, encephalopathy, nausea, and vomiting, and/or progressive multifocal neurological deficits (e.g. multiple cranial neuropathies and radiculopathies, myelopathy) 3. Meningism is only present in a minority of patients (13% 3)."

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Inline EG
suggestion

"Clinical presentation is varied, but most commonly includes headache, encephalopathy, nausea, and vomiting, and/or progressive multifocal neurological deficits (e.g. multiple cranial neuropathies and radiculopathies, myelopathy) 3. Meningism is only present in a minority of patients (13% 3)."

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"gastrointestinal (e.g. gastric carcinoma 4,5, colorectal cancer 8)"

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Semicolons
suggestion

"T2: usually normal; may show hyperintensity (including the bloomy rind sign in the brainstem 23)"

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