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Lea Alhilali, MD

@teachplaygrub

Jun 14, 2022 • 10 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X

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1/Like a bad piano player in a run down bar--I take requests! By popular demand, a🧵on how I make those illustrations for my #tweetorials--all in #PowerPoint!
This one shows how to create shadow & highlights to give a 3D effect
#medtwitter #MedEd #FOAMed #powerpointpresentation

2/Let's use this french fry illustration I used for my varices🧵
I use the curve function to create shapes. It has the most control for drawing--the freeform function causes uneven lines.
After drawing the shape, I use the shape fill function to fill it in it w/the color I need

3/ 3D effects begin w/the gradient fill. I use the gradient fill that powerpoint offers for my selected color--it knows how to chose them so that the gradient is smooth

4/ Now to get more advanced w/focal shadows. Using the curve function, I draw shapes where I want shadows. Then I fill these in using the eyedropper function on the Shape Fill menu. I touch the eyedropper to the darkest part of the gradient to fill them in w/a nice dark shadow.

5/ Now these shapes need to be blurred so they look more like shadows. I select them and go to the "Shape Effects" menu & select "Soft Edges." I⬆️the size of the soft edge until they look like good shadows. It is different for every shape, but usually you need at least 5 point

6/Now for highlights. I use the curve function to draw shapes where I want highlights. Similar to shadows, I use the eyedropper function to fill in the shapes--but instead of putting the eyedropper on the darkest part of the gradient, I put it in the lightest part of the gradient

7/However, for highlights, the lightest part of the gradient isn't light enough. So I select the shape, go to shape fill color & select "More colors." This brings up a box where you can lighten the shade of that color--the same way light would lighten it if it was shining on it.

8/Now it is time to blur these highlights the same way we blurred the shadows--using the soft edges function, increasing the soft edge until you get desired look of your highlight.

9/Now we add details. First, I drew the McDonalds logo using the curve function. Then I used the curve function to draw a single fry. I took that fry & copied & pasted it over &over again--each time rotating it & stretching it to make it look like there were many different fries

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10/Voila! That is how you make a very professional illustration using only PPT & in only a few easy steps! Excited to see what you will create w/these new skills!
I post more of my tips for creating these illustrations in PPT--so if interested click to follow me @teachplaygrub

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Dec 5

1/They say form follows function!

Brain MRI anatomy is best understood in terms of both form & function.

Here’s a short thread to help you to remember important functional brain anatomy--so you truly can clinically correlate!

2/Let’s start at the top. At the vertex is the superior frontal gyrus. This is easy to remember, bc it’s at the top—and being at the top is superior. It’s like the superior king at the top of the vertex.

3/It is also easy to recognize on imaging. It looks like a big thumb pointing straight up out of the brain. I always look for that thumbs up when I am looking for the superior frontal gyrus (SFG)

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Lea Alhilali, MD

@teachplaygrub

Dec 1

1/To call it or not to call it? That is the question!

Do you feel a bit wacky & wobbly when it comes to calling normal pressure hydrocephalus on imaging?

You don’t want to overcall it, but you don’t want to miss it either!

Let me help you out w/a thread about imaging in NPH!

2/First, you must understand the pathophysiology of “idiopathic” or iNPH.

It was first described in 1965—but, of the original six in the 1965 cohort, 4 were found to have underlying causes for hydrocephalus.

This begs the question—when do you stop looking & call it idiopathic?

3/Thus, some don’t believe true idiopathic NPH exists.

After all, it’s a syndrome defined essentially only by response to a treatment w/o ever a placebo-controlled trial.

However, most believe iNPH does exist--but its underlying etiology is controversial. Several theories exist

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Lea Alhilali, MD

@teachplaygrub

Nov 21

1/Time to go with the flow!

Hoping no one notices you don’t know the anatomy of internal carotid (ICA)?

Do you say “carotid siphon” & hope no one asks for more detail?

Here’s a thread to help you siphon off some information about ICA anatomy!

2/ICA is like a staircase—winding up through important anatomic regions like a staircase winding up to each floor Lobby is the neck.

First floor is skullbase/carotid canal. Next it stops at the cavernous sinus, before finally reaching the rooftop balcony of the intradural space.

3/ICA is divided into numbered segments based on landmarks that denote transitions on its way up the floors.

C1 is in the lobby or neck.

You can remember this b/c the number 1 looks elongated & straight like a neck.

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Lea Alhilali, MD

@teachplaygrub

Nov 4

1/The 90s called & wants its carotid imaging back!

It’s been 30 years--are you still on NASCET?

Feeling vulnerable about plaque vulnerability?

This month’s @theAJNR SCANtastic has what you need to know about carotid plaque

ajnr.org/content/46/10/…

2/Everyone knows the NASCET criteria:

If the patient is symptomatic & the greatest stenosis from the plaque is >70% of the diameter of normal distal lumen, patient will likely benefit from carotid endarterectomy

But that doesn’t mean the remaining patients are just fine!

3/Yes, carotid plaques resulting in high-grade stenosis are high risk

But assuming that stenosis is the only mechanism by which a carotid plaque is high risk is like assuming that the only way to kill someone is by strangulation.

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Lea Alhilali, MD

@teachplaygrub

Oct 24

1/Having trouble remembering how to differentiate dementias on imaging?

Is looking at dementia PET scans one of your PET peeves?

Here’s a thread to show you how to remember the imaging findings in dementia & never forget!

2/The most common functional imaging used in dementia is FDG PET. And the most common dementia is Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

On PET, AD demonstrates a typical Nike swoosh pattern—with decreased metabolism in the parietal & temporal regions

3/The swoosh rapidly tapers anteriorly—& so does hypometabolism in AD in the temporal lobe. It usually spares the anterior temporal poles.

So in AD look for a rapidly tapering Nike swoosh, w/hypometabolism in the parietal/temporal regions—sparing the anterior temporal pole

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Lea Alhilali, MD

@teachplaygrub

Oct 17

1/My hardest thread yet! Are you up for the challenge?

How stroke perfusion imaging works!

Ever wonder why it’s Tmax & not Tmin?

Do you not question & let RAPID read the perfusion for you? Not anymore!

2/Perfusion imaging is based on one principle: When you inject CT or MR intravenous contrast, the contrast flows w/blood & so contrast can be a surrogate marker for blood.

This is key, b/c we can track contrast—it changes CT density or MR signal so we can see where it goes.

3/So if we can track how contrast gets to the tissue (by changes in CT density or MR signal), then we can approximate how BLOOD is getting to the tissue.

And how much blood is getting to the tissue is what perfusion imaging is all about.

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