Radiopaedia Helpers

Uncomparables

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"The transcatheter hepatic artery infusion of radioisotope delivers high doses of intratumoural radiation, while sparing the surrounding healthy liver parenchyma (or at least only delivers a low, tolerable dose to normal liver)."

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Units

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"Re-188 has found growing interest as a poor man's Y90 due to the long (6month) half life of its generator."

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"injection of 99mTc-MAA (macroaggregated albumin) into the hepatic artery proper with follow up scintigraphy to determine the degree of shunting to lungs (lung shunt fraction) and bowel"

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"preliminary angiogram to determine vascular anatomy, confirm location of metastases, inject 99mTc-MAA for scan shortly after angiogram, determine extrahepatic arteries arising from the coeliac axis that will need to be avoided or embolised including cystic artery if gallbladder is still present"

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Adjectival Hyphens

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"pre-procedure evaluation"

Line 46:8 · 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: 'pre-procedure'.

"Post-procedure evaluation"

Line 60:5 · 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-procedure'.

Isotope Notation

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"injection of 99mTc-MAA (macroaggregated albumin) into the hepatic artery proper with follow up scintigraphy to determine the degree of shunting to lungs (lung shunt fraction) and bowel"

Line 48:24 · Write the isotope as symbol-mass, e.g. F-18, not '99mTc'.

"preliminary angiogram to determine vascular anatomy, confirm location of metastases, inject 99mTc-MAA for scan shortly after angiogram, determine extrahepatic arteries arising from the coeliac axis that will need to be avoided or embolised including cystic artery if gallbladder is still present"

Line 54:100 · Write the isotope as symbol-mass, e.g. F-18, not '99mTc'.

List Caps

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"Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status >3"

Line 19:8 · In general, we don't start a list item with a capital letter. Exceptions are proper nouns.

Headings Valid

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Expected headings

H1 Indications
H1 Contraindications
H1 Preprocedural evaluation
H1 Procedure
H2 Equipment
H2 Technique
H2 Postprocedural care
H1 Postprocedural evaluation
H2 Radiographic features
H1 Complications
H1 Outcomes
H1 History and etymology
H1 See also

"Pathology"

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"Procedure steps"

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"Post-procedure evaluation"

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"Potential complications"

Line 66:1 · "Potential complications" is not a recognised heading for this article type.

Oxford Comma

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"It is generally considered efficacious in patients with hepatocellular cancer, neuroendocrine and colorectal liver metastases ¹. It generally involves a single delivery of yttrium-90 (Y-90) microspheres into the hepatic artery. Preferential uptake is achieved into liver tumours, because of their predominant hepatic arterial blood supply. Average tumour doses of radiation in excess of 200 Gy are achieved."

Line 3:78 · Use the Oxford comma in 'cancer, neuroendocrine and colorectal'.

"nausea, vomiting, fever, diarrhoea and abdominal pain"

Line 68:26 · Use the Oxford comma in 'fever, diarrhoea and abdominal'.

"transient lab abnormalities including liver function, haemoglobin and platelet levels"

Line 69:52 · Use the Oxford comma in 'function, haemoglobin and platelet'.

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