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Adjectival Hyphens

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"post-surgical"

Line 25:8 · 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-surgical'.

"post-percutaneous intervention, e.g. pleural drain insertion"

Line 26:8 · 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-percutaneous'.

Optional Plurals

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"gas-producing infection(s), e.g necrotising fasciitis"

Line 33:26 · Do not use plurals in parentheses such as in 'infection(s)'.

There Is

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"There are often striated lucencies in the soft tissues that may outline muscle fibres. If affecting the anterior chest wall, subcutaneous emphysema can outline the pectoralis major muscle, giving rise to the ginkgo leaf sign ². Often there are displaced rib fractures indicating a cause of the gas."

Line 39:4 · Don't start a sentence with 'There are'.

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