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Strong List Colon Position

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"T1: isointense"

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"T1 C+ (Gd): intense enhancement is virtually always seen"

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Adjectival Hyphens

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"Surgical resection is the treatment of choice, sometimes with preoperative embolisation to reduce intra-operative blood loss. Resection alone is usually curative with a post-resection recurrence rate of less than 5% ^1-5."

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"These tumours were previously known as spinal paragangliomas however they are molecularly and genetically distinct from paragangliomas seen elsewhere in the body and as such the term neuroendocrine tumour is preferred ⁵."

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Acronyms

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"GFAP: usually positive"

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Emphasis

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"Numerous mutations have been identified as predisposing to paragangliomas including VHL, RET, NF1, SDHAF2, SDHB, SDHC, SDHD, TNEM127 and MAX ⁵."

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Prefix Hyphens

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"Surgical resection is the treatment of choice, sometimes with preoperative embolisation to reduce intra-operative blood loss. Resection alone is usually curative with a post-resection recurrence rate of less than 5% ^1-5."

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Semicolons

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"All paragangliomas consist of two types of cells; type I and type II. The main components are lobules or nests of chief cells (type I); these structures are known as Zellballen. They are surrounded by a single layer of sustentacular cells (type II) ⁵."

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"All paragangliomas consist of two types of cells; type I and type II. The main components are lobules or nests of chief cells (type I); these structures are known as Zellballen. They are surrounded by a single layer of sustentacular cells (type II) ⁵."

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Commas

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"Numerous mutations have been identified as predisposing to paragangliomas including VHL, RET, NF1, SDHAF2, SDHB, SDHC, SDHD, TNEM127 and MAX ⁵."

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Oxford Comma

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"Numerous mutations have been identified as predisposing to paragangliomas including VHL, RET, NF1, SDHAF2, SDHB, SDHC, SDHD, TNEM127 and MAX ⁵."

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Lint: paraganglioma-of-the-filum-terminale