Talk:Myelography

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I'm rather new to Wikipedia and I hope this is the right place to post this question.

I got an e-mail this morning about a friend who was having difficulties after a "mylogram". Not knowing what that test was, I searched Wikipedia and it came back with nothing found. So I searched Google which came back with some forum postings with people asking questions about mylogram tests. But then, I noticed that Google suggested I might have meant to search for "myelogram" (slightly different spelling). This brought me to a very informative page from the Univ of Maryland Medical Center (http://www.umm.edu/radiology/myelog.htm).

So then I came back to Wikipedia, corrected the spelling and found this page on Myelography. IWhile it is short page, it was helpful. And the information I found here matches with the note I got about my friend and the difficulties (sever headache requiring a return to the hospital) that he is experiencing after his procedure.

My question is this: Does Wikipedia have a mechanism in place to help out those who search for things like this using an incorrect spelling. I know it has disambigity pages and perhaps a page like that is the one used to somehow link a common mis-spelling to the page a person might actually be searching for. It appears that mis-spelling the name of this procedure as "mylogram" is not uncommon, since Google was able to find forum discussions (for those who have been through this procedure).

Wikipedia is a remarkably useful (perhaps I should say valuable) resource. For all that it has helped me through, I would like to give back or contribute. I just need to learn more about the guidelines of how to contribute.

Ken S. Sneezy2 12:26, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

A re-direct page can be created, especially if there is a common misspelling. I will now create one for 'mylogram.'Gunslinger 15:45, 10 July 2007 (UTC)