Shotty v shoddy lymphadenopathy
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This is a term many medical transcriptionists seem to struggle with.
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“Shoddy” is defined as something that is cheap and tawdry. Keeping this in mind, it makes sense that there is no such thing as a “tawdry lymphadenopathy.”
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“Shotty” is meant as being like buckshot, which is scattered and lumpy when it hits a target; i.e., shotty lymphadenopathy is lymph nodes that are scattered and lumpy.
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The correct term is always shotty lymphadenopathy.
Sun, Oct 11, 2009
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