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Lint: mixedepithelial-and-stromal-tumour-1

Citation Syntax
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"This benign kidney tumour shows solid and cystic architecture and is composed of epithelial and mesenchymal elements 4-5:"

Line 7:121 · Citations are separated by commas, except when the range is over 2.
Prefix Hyphens
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"There is a female preponderance 10:1 1 with tumours occurring predominantly in middle-aged peri-menopausal women and older women. There is a possible link with oestrogen therapy and other hormonal treatment, including GnRH agonists 2,5."

Line 3:106 · A prefix takes a hyphen only to avoid a duplicate letter: 'peri-menopausal'.
Acronyms
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"the surrounding stromal component is fibrous to spindled to focally muscular and shows expression of ER and PR; it is often described as 'ovarian-type stroma'"

Line 11:109 · 'ER' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.

"the surrounding stromal component is fibrous to spindled to focally muscular and shows expression of ER and PR; it is often described as 'ovarian-type stroma'"

Line 11:116 · 'PR' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.
There Is
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"There is a female preponderance 10:1 1 with tumours occurring predominantly in middle-aged peri-menopausal women and older women. There is a possible link with oestrogen therapy and other hormonal treatment, including GnRH agonists 2,5."

Line 3:4 · Don't start a sentence with 'There is'.

"There is a female preponderance 10:1 1 with tumours occurring predominantly in middle-aged peri-menopausal women and older women. There is a possible link with oestrogen therapy and other hormonal treatment, including GnRH agonists 2,5."

Line 3:145 · Don't start a sentence with 'There is'.
Semicolons
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"the surrounding stromal component is fibrous to spindled to focally muscular and shows expression of ER and PR; it is often described as 'ovarian-type stroma'"

Line 11:118 · Use semicolons judiciously.
Oxford Comma
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"The lesion is usually well circumscribed from the surrounding renal parenchyma and perinephric fat and lacks features of malignancy including invasive growth, necrosis or significant cellular atypia."

Line 13:155 · Use the Oxford comma in 'growth, necrosis or significant'.