I am confused with the rule and cannot find an answer in the AAMT BOS 2. In the sentence, "The pain is mild to moderate" do you hyphenate this or not? It does not modify a noun immediately following it, but is there another rule or reason to hyphenate. I want to hyphenate it but am not sure.
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A bone scan shows some mild s/l activities or activity to the superior acetabular labrum. It does not show any evidence to suggest loosening or osteomyelitis. TIA. ...
Lately, I have been getting dinged for not putting hyphens in mild/moderate to moderate/severe plaque or moderate to severe htn or mild to moderate anything. I don't understand why we would need hyphens. In that case, shouldn't "anything to anything" need hyphens? ...
have varicosities, but there is no progression....I did talk to her about swimming and cycling as other activities to maintain quad strength and keep her weight down for both her joint disease as well as risk of VSD.
I can not figure out what VSD stands for. He says it very clearly. All my searches turn up ventricular septal defect, but his use of the word "distally" makes me think he is not talking about that. Plus, this is an orthopedist. ...
Accordingly, MRI of the cervical spine without contrast was done on February 28, 2009 and was reported by the radiologist as showing intradural extramedullary isointense ___ at T3 producing deformity on the spinal cord and mild-to-moderate stenosis. Differential diagnosis included hemangiomas, metastasis, schwannoma, or neurofibroma or metastatic disease.
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Can you please tell me if the words in the parentheses sound correct? Also, I wanted to know if I should put a comma before which?
(Acute bony ) injury is identified. (Mild facet arthropathy) is noted bilaterally at L5-S1. There is calcification in the wall of the distal (abdominal aorta), which appears to be minimally dilated.
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Doc is describing an ultrasound on a patient with right upper quadrant pain. "Ultrasound showed common bile duct stone with mild s/l uppastreen biliary dilatation. The gallbladder showed flush with gallbladder wall irregularity."
This is an ESL Asian doc. I'm really not sure what I'm hearing. Anybody have an idea? Thanks. ...