Items tagged “help”

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Stub

Stubs are short incomplete articles that are little more than a placeholder for a longer definitive article. The length of the article is less important than how long it is in contrast to how long it should be. In other words, some articles need only be a paragraph long to be considered complete...
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References

References are essential to the pursuit of the high academic standards of Radiopaedia.  Any recommendations for patient care must be based on current science, evidence, and clinical reasoning while avoiding advocating for or promoting, practices that are not, or not yet, adequately based on cur...
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Standard article structure

Standard article structure is important on Radiopaedia.org so that we have a consistent article structure and maintain uniformity across the whole site. Standard sections A typical article should have an article title and then is broken down into a set of standard sections, although, not every...
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Articles

Articles form the encyclopedic component of Radiopaedia.org and are collaborative efforts to create atomic reference articles for anything related to the practice of radiology. Unlike a textbook, journal publication or a written encyclopedia, Radiopaedia.org articles allow you and other users to...
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Spelling (general)

Correct spelling, also known as orthography in formal usage, is crucial to ensuring that the site is easy to read and trusted. There are a number of troublesome examples that are either frequently written incorrectly, misunderstood or where multiple forms are accepted. In the latter case, we jus...
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Capitalization

Capitalization is a potential area where style differences can make a significant difference to the content at Radiopaedia.org, and as usual, a consistent style is crucial for uniformity of the site.  Titles and subheadings Article titles and case titles, as well as subheadings, should be in s...
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Bulleted and numbered lists

Bulleted and numbered lists are an important part of the general style in Radiopaedia.org and we have some general rules that should be followed. Lists Lists exist to highlight important content to the reader and therefore tend to be fragments of sentences (not complete sentences). When creati...
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Image preparation

Images are clearly a very important part of Radiopaedia.org and we aim for high quality and uniformity across the site. As always patient anonymity is essential, and any images with patient details included will be removed, and cases will usually be deleted. Images Quality Radiology is all ab...
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Disambiguation

Disambiguation is required when two articles need to share the same name. For example, in anatomy, there are instances where different structures share the same name, e.g. lingula. Where this occurs, the content should be moved to an article that has a more descriptive title and the page referri...
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Copyright issues

Copyright issues are hugely important when creating the largest online radiology resource. It is absolutely essential that no copyrighted material is uploaded to the site in any form; images, text, multiple-choice questions, etc.  Also, please remember that in addition to the potential legal ra...
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Images

Images, be they part of cases, illustrations, photographs, tables, flow-charts, etc, should all be uploaded via the "Add case" page.  Outsourced images Copyright issues are as always extremely important and under no circumstances should images or text which are copyrighted be included in any p...
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Stacks

Stacks are a set of sequential images that can be scrolled and are expected for all cross-sectional studies (e.g. CT/MRI) as well as most time-resolved modalities (e.g. DSA/contrast-enhanced ultrasound). Creating stacks In your browser Uploading stacks is easy but depends on the image format....
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Captions

Each study has a caption, located above the images, which is optional and should only be filled with pertinent information, not the diagnosis, as this would exclude the case from quiz mode. Sentence case should be followed but without terminal punctuation.  Information that can be included in t...
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General overview of Radiopaedia.org

Radiopaedia.org is a rapidly growing peer-reviewed open-edit radiology resource primarily compiled by radiologists and radiology residents/registrars and fellows from across the globe. The site aims to create the best radiology reference available, and to make it available for free, forever and ...
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Note on figures and percentages

We all know that figures can vary widely from various publications, and usually precise figures are irrelevant.  Some texts favor listing the range that has been published without giving a 'best guess ballpark figure'. We feel this is not entirely useful as it often generates very wide ranges w...
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Numbers, units and operators

Numbers, units and operators are used frequently in articles. We often quote the incidence of a condition as a range or say that x happens in more than y% of cases. To try and keep the style similar across the site, and maximize the readability of these figures, we have some simple suggestions....
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What Radiopaedia IS

Radiopaedia.org is more than just a website. It is the front end of a community whose aim is to develop the best researched, most comprehensive and most accessible online radiology reference site... read more.  Radiopaedia.org IS an opportunity to contribute to a project which has become the re...
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Pinned images

Pinned images are images that the logged in user has specifically selected by switching the grey pin of an image into a yellow pin.  grey pin indicates the image is not pinned yellow pin indicates the image is pinned The advantage of pins Images that you have pinned can be accessed via the p...
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Synonyms

Synonyms, located below references when in edit mode, are used in a number of scenarios.  What is a synonym? A synonym is essentially a 'redirect' to an article. This enables links created to article A to pass to article B, provided article B has an added synonym "article A".  Having extensiv...
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Key image

The key image is a property of a stack, and refers to the image which is most representative of the stack as a whole. This image will then be used as the thumbnail for the stack both in case view and when the stack is included in an article.  You can set the key image in two ways. go to "Edit ...

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