Radiopaedia Helpers

Adjectival Hyphens

error

"local trauma: e.g. inferior alveolar nerve injury, post-genioplasty, etc."

Line 13:66 · 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-'.

There Is

suggestion

"Numb chin syndrome is caused by a lesion of the trigeminal nerve, occurring anywhere from the central pathways to the mental nerve terminal branch. There are protean aetiologies for numb chin syndrome, which can broadly be categorised into malignant and non-malignant causes. Overall, the most common causes are local non-malignant odontogenic pathology and occult malignancy ⁴."

Line 5:166 · Don't start a sentence with 'There are'.

Oxford Comma

suggestion

"vasculitis, autoimmune and connective tissue diseases: e.g. giant cell arteritis, sarcoidosis, etc."

Line 14:8 · Use the Oxford comma in 'vasculitis, autoimmune and connective'.

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