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Adjectival Hyphens

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"Secondary osteosarcoma occurs in the elderly, usually secondary to malignant degeneration of Paget disease, extensive bone infarcts, post-radiotherapy for other conditions, osteochondroma, and osteoblastoma."

Line 4:151 · 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-radiotherapy'.

List Caps

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"Codman triangle"

Line 102:11 · In general, we don't start a list item with a capital letter. Exceptions are proper nouns.

"Ewing sarcoma"

Line 167:11 · In general, we don't start a list item with a capital letter. Exceptions are proper nouns.

Acronyms

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"FDG PET is better than bone scintigraphy for detecting bone metastases. It will show increased SUV at sites of distant metastases. As there is no definite cutoff value for SUV level, it can be used in follow-up to evaluate the response to chemotherapy ¹²."

Line 154:102 · 'SUV' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.

Line 154:183 · 'SUV' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.

Headings Valid

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Expected headings

H1 Terminology
H1 Usage
H1 Epidemiology
H2 Risk factors
H2 Associations
H1 Clinical presentation
H2 Complications
H1 Diagnosis
H2 Diagnostic criteria
H2 Diagnostic clues
H1 Pathology
H2 Aetiology
H2 Location
H2 Classification
H2 Macroscopic appearance
H2 Microscopic appearance
H2 Immunophenotype
H2 Markers
H2 Genetics
H1 Radiographic features
H2 Plain radiograph
H2 Mammography
H2 Antenatal ultrasound
H2 Transoesophageal echocardiography
H2 Ultrasound
H2 CT
H3 Dual-energy CT
H2 Angiography (DSA)
H2 MRI
H2 CT/MRI
H2 Nuclear medicine
H3 PET-CT
H3 PET-MRI
H1 Radiology report
H1 Treatment and prognosis
H2 Complications
H1 History and etymology
H1 Differential diagnosis
H2 Clinical differential diagnosis
H1 Practical points
H1 See also

"Bone scintigraphy"

Line 151:1 · "Bone scintigraphy" is not a recognised heading for this article type.

"FDG PET"

Line 153:1 · "FDG PET" is not a recognised heading for this article type.

Oxford Comma

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"wide zone of transition, permeative or moth-eaten appearance"

Line 97:21 · Use the Oxford comma in 'transition, permeative or moth'.

Semicolons

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"If a limb-salvage procedure is feasible, a course of multidrug chemotherapy precedes surgery to downstage the tumour ¹⁵, followed by wide resection of the bone and insertion of an endoprosthesis. The outcome depends on factors such as age, sex, site, size, and type, but the most important predictor is the histologic degree of necrosis after induction chemotherapy; 90% histologic necrosis is associated with a much better prognosis ⁶. The 5-year survival rate after adequate therapy is approximately 60-80% in the setting of localised disease ^4,16. Outcomes for metastatic disease remain significantly worse ¹⁶."

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