Example: “On bone windows, atherosclerotic calcifications are present at the skull base.”

It’s not necessary to report “on bone windows.” It adds no relevant information regarding athersclerotic calcification. It’s analogous to us getting the following history for a chest radiograph: “On auscultation left lower lobe rales are present.” It doesn’t matter how the physical finding was made. It’s only the finding itself that matters. The other information is extraneous.

The words “are present” do not carry useful information and should be omitted from the example. With these proposed edits the example would read “Atherosclerotic calcifications at the skull base.”

“At the skull base” is a vague description. Furthermore, the example sentence gives no idea of severity.  If I felt compelled to report vascular calcification in this region, I’d say where and how bad:  “Mildly calcified distal cervical internal carotid arteries.”

Example: “On bone windows, atherosclerotic calcifications are present at the skull base.”

Possible rewrite: “Mildly calcified distal cervical ICAs.”