Radlines:Editorial guidelines
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How to edit
Editors of articles must be doctors of medicine, or have formal expertise in radiology by other means.
See Radlines:About#Participation on how to become an active article editor.
Generally, be bold, and make changes whenever you think it will improve the site.
References
It is acceptable to write from experience, but material should be supported by reliable external sources whenever it is likely that such exists for the topic of a sentence or section. Such external sources should, where available, be secondary ones such as textbooks and reviews rather than primary studies.
Dubious or insufficiently referenced texts should be corrected, removed, or marked with inline cleanup tags, such as:
[Dubious ] - in source code editing, this is added by the addition of {{Dubious}}.
[Citation needed] - by {{Citation needed}}.
[Better source needed] - by {{Better source}}.
When sources have conflicting information, either mention both, or choose one that seems more reasonable. A note can be made about alternatives, such as in Fluoroscopy of fibrin sheaths of ports#Notes.
Authorship
To be mentioned among the authors of an article, a user must:
- Use his/her real name in the author list (regardless of username used for editing).
- Have made a significant contribution to the article. There is no strict cutoff to what is significant, so in case of uncertainty it is recommended to make an entry at the Discussion page of the article on the matter. If there is no response after 4 days, it is acceptable to add oneself in the author list after contributing to the article.
Being listed as an author implies a shared responsibility for the content of the article.
When at least one author is listed, and edits have been made by additional users (regardless of fulfilling the criteria above), et al. should be added to the author list, linking to the "View history" page of the article, in order to denote that the listed author(s) is not the only contributor(s).
Target audience
The text should be written to be understood by a medical school graduate with very basic radiology knowledge. It should be concise, so that a radiologist at work can quickly find the information of interest.
Text can be written in imperative format where appropriate, such as "Look at..." or "Avoid...".
Inter-article structure
Articles in Radlines can be directly found by search engine, either by the internal search box at top, or external ones. In addition, each article subject should be connected with the main page through links in a series of pages, so that a radiologist can find their way to it by the appearance of that condition. For example, Angiomyolipoma should be found by clicking links in articles in the following sequence:
| Level | Main | Location | Location | Modality+Location | Modality+Presentation+Location | Disease |
| Example | Main | Abdomen and pelvis | Kidneys | CT of the kidneys | CT of renal mass | Angiomyolipoma |
There can additional levels between the ones above, and there can be articles about diseases in specific locations or by a specific modality.
No orphans
The creator of a new article must link the article back through a likely sequence that a radiologist would find that condition when seeing it. Articles lacking an unbroken connection to the main page should be tagged with {{Orphan}}, and should be either connected to a sequence or deleted (if the author has been notified of this intention but hasn't made amendments in over two weeks).
Structuring into these levels require more extensive work for more systemic diseases. Arthritis, for example, must be added in the articles of multiple joints. It is the responsibility of the creator of such a disease article to add it to all locations where it is well known to be relevant.
An author wanting to upload a case must therefore make sure that there is at least a short article about the condition in general, for example a general article about angiomyolipoma (or CT or other specified modality of angiomyolipoma) when wanting to upload images of an unusual presentation of it.
Forking
Forking means to make one or more sub-articles from contents of a longer article. This should be done when the resultant structure better conforms to the inter-article structure above, and also when an article exceeds 15-20 images. The parent article should link to the fork by the following note at the top of the section:
- Main article: Fork title
This can be generated by the template {{Main|Fork title}}. The section of the parent article should also contain a short summary of the most relevant aspects of the topic. As an example, see:
No lists of causes
When linking to a condition from the previous level in the sequence, it should not be done by including it in a list of causes. Rather, it must be integrated so that it is clear how it is different from other conditions, in prose and/or a table such as this example of how to include Angiomyolipoma in the article CT of renal mass:
| Angiomyolipoma | Macroscopic fat |
| Renal cell cancer | No fat |
| etc. | etc. |
At least the most common causes should be mentioned in such differentials.
If there is no radiologic appearance that distinguishes the condition from one or more other conditions, then another type of distinctive feature needs to be mentioned, such as a specific clinical symptom, or epidemiology including incidence or prevalence. Images of the conditions are sufficient when the difference is visually obvious.
The exemption to this rule of no lists of causes is if the article as a whole clearly conveys unique characteristics for each listed condition.
Radlines is made by humans
Do not import or generate content in large amounts by automatic applications. It is acceptable to copy-paste text from other sources with compatible licensing (see Radlines:Copyright), but it needs to be properly integrated into the context of existing Radlines material.
It is acceptable to perform automated maintenance tasks, such as making terminology or organization more consistent, but it should be done with care, because an unusual layout or wording may be better for certain conditions.
Radlines supports Categories, which are of help in maintenance of the site, such as for example identifying all articles with technical errors in references. However, categories are not a replacement for articles that describe, summarize and distinguish related topics.
Abbreviations
Computed tomography should be abbreviated as CT, and magnetic resonance imaging should be abbreviated as MRI, since medical doctors can be presumed to be familiar with these.
Similarly, projectional radiography should be termed X-ray in article titles, but the introduction should include projectional radiography ("X-ray") to specify the scope, and X-ray should thereafter be used in article prose as well.
Images
Use Radlines:Upload to upload new files.
- See Radlines:Copyright for information regarding what images you may upload.
- See #Cases below for case-related guidelines.
Images can be added in articles by clicking the "Edit" tab at top and then "Insert" and "Media". In source code, images are added to the right in the text by the following code for an example file "File:T1-weighted-MRI.png":
[[File:T1-weighted-MRI.png|thumb|150px|Image description.]]
For more rendering alternatives, see Mediawiki:Help:Images
Links
- Internal
Add internal links for words that are notable enough in radiology to have their own article, whether or not that article exists yet or not. In source code editing, internal links are created by adding [[ and ]] around the word or words. The text can be made different than the linked article title by [[title|text]]. For example, [[Reporting|General notes on reporting]] shows as General notes on reporting but links to the article Reporting.
- External
External links, when not used as references, should be kept in a separate section at the end of an article. They should only include open access pages. External links are not a replacement for writing content in Radlines with the same topic.
In source code, external links are added by [URL title]. For example, with the following code:
*[https://www2.aofoundation.org/wps/portal/surgery?showPage=diagnosis&bone=Femur&segment=Proximal AO classification of proximal femur fractures]
The following link is generated:
General section recommendations
Suggested headers for different types of articles are given in their sections below. Still, it is not necessary for the creator of an article to start multiple sections right away, but can let it grow with time by collaborative editing.
Radiographic positioning may contain a link to one or more relevant articles in wikiradiography. For example, Forearm may contain the following links:
There is no need for anatomy sections, because any relevant anatomy should be integrated into its context in other sections.
Modality+Location articles
Example: CT of the thorax.
Diseases may be included in the article if being short, such as CT of the thorax#Lymphadenopathy. They should, however, preferably be expanded to own articles that are linked from the Modality+Location article as described in the #Inter-article structure section above.
Modality-specific disease articles
Example: X-ray of fractures
Title
The title should include all the components (such as X-ray of distal radius fracture) unless the condition is specific for a particular location (such as Ultrasonography of appendicitis). Adpositions are generally "of", "in" or "for". There is no need for "suspected" or "possible" even for investigations generally used to rule out the disease.
The disease may be either in the plural form (such as in X-ray of fractures) or singular form (such as in X-ray of distal radius fracture).
Sections
The recommended layout is as follows:
- Introduction, including a definition of the condition, and/or links to parent articles where available. For example, the introduction in the article X-ray of hip prostheses can start as "For X-ray of the hip joint in the presence of a prosthesis...".
- Planning. Possible content includes:
- Whether alternative modalities are indicated
- How soon the investigation should be done
- Quality checking, including signs that the investigation needs to be redone
- Findings, whose structure of subsections should generally be based on appearance, but sometimes on other information that is generally known, such as age of the patient for bone tumors.[2]
- Further evaluation, with important concomitant findings when the disease is known, such as staging of cancers.
- Report, preferably including at least one example of a report with typical findings of a disease, as well as one report including the most important absences of findings when the disease is important to rule out. You may add the template {{Reporting}} below the header in order to link to general notes about reporting.
Disease articles can have a short introduction with one or two sentences about pathophysiology, and likewise for symptoms, prognosis and general treatment. Otherwise, these aspects should only be included where relevant in the radiologic differential diagnosis. These aspects are not necessary if the differential diagnosis can be made by visible radiologic findings alone.
Modality-unspecific disease articles
Example: Urolithiasis
These articles should focus on the planning of the investigation, such as by the following layout:
- Planning, which assumes that there is a referral specifically asking for an investigation of the subject at hand. Recommended subsections include:
- Justification of the investigation, such as symptoms raising the suspicion of the condition.
- Modality or modalities of choice, and when to choose which one
- How soon the investigation should be done.
The title should generally not be in plural.
Other aspects of the disease should as far as possible be added at linked modality-specific articles.
Cases
Case descriptions should be written entirely in the description page of the uploaded image. Descriptions should include:
- Consent note, for example "Written consent"
- Diagnostic certainty, from "Possible", "Probable", "Almost certain" to "Certain", or "Not applicable"
- Patient age
- Patient sex
- Patient history and/or symptoms
- Findings in the image
Multiple images
In cases with 2 or 3 images, it can be done by either:
- Copying the descriptions to each image page.
- Make an article starting as "Case of a ...", and linking to that article in each image page.
- Templating, as described in the #Templates section below. For this purpose, the steps include:
- Giving the template a title, for example: 26 year old woman with ectopic pregnancy, description
- Write the case description on the template page. On the template page, tt is also recommended to list all images that belong to the case.
- Press save, and implement the template in each related image.
Image stacks
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Image stacks such as for CTs and MRIs can be created by choosing "Edit source" and adding for example the following code (resultant stack displayed at right):
{{Imagestack
|width=250
|title=
|align=right
|background=#ffffff
|loop=no
|File:Computed tomography of human brain (16).png|
|File:Computed tomography of human brain (15).png|
|File:Computed tomography of human brain (14).png|
}}
To move through the images, hover over the image and use scroll wheel, drag the mouse over the image, or click the < or the > above each stack. This functionality should activate when the page is fully loaded, which may take some if there are many images in the stack.
How to create a new article
You need to create an account and become approved as Editor before being able to create articles. See Radlines:About#Participation. As an approved Editor, you can create an article as follows:
You also get the alternative to create an article by clicking red links (terms lacking an article), or by searching for such terms in the search box at top right.
Templates
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A template has the ability to show the same material in multiple pages, and edits to it show up immediately in all those pages. For example, the template {{Diameters of abdominal aorta}} shows a table of the diameters of the aorta in both of these articles:
This avoids contradictions and missed locations when the data needs to be updated.
Templates can be used for data tables, like the example, that are applicable to multiple articles. They can also be used for case descriptions on each related image page as described in the Cases section above. However, they should not be used for article prose, whose optimal wording often depends on the context of the article.
Creation
Implementation
Write the same title, surrounded by two curly brackets on each side, where the template is needed, such as:
{{26 year old woman with ectopic pregnancy, description}}
Edit
Alternatively, templates can be edited by searching for the template title in the search bar at top, preceded by Template: but without the curly brackets, such as:
Template:26 year old woman with ectopic pregnancy, description
Technical description of templates in MediaWiki: MediaWiki: Help: Templates
See also
References
- ↑ Rinze Reinhard, Mandy van der Zon-Conijn and Robin Smithuis. Kidney - Solid masses. Radiology Assistant. Retrieved on 2018-05-26.
- ↑ Henk Jan van der Woude and Robin Smithuis. Bone tumor - Systematic approach and Differential diagnosis. Retrieved on 2018-05-26.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 . Archived copy. Archived from the original on 2017-09-08. Retrieved on 2017-08-23. Page 56] in: Philip Lumb (2014). Critical Care Ultrasound E-Book . Elsevier Health Sciences. ISBN 9780323278171.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms: single centre randomised controlled trial ". BMJ 330 (7494): 750. Apr 2005. doi:. PMID 15757960.
