Lea Alhilali, MD

1/Feeling unarmed when it comes to evaluating cervical radiculopathy & foraminal narrowing on MRI? Is reading c-spine MRIs becoming a pain in the neck? Here’s a thread that’ll t...

Lea Alhilali, MD

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1/Talk about dangerous liaisons! Abnormal brain vascular connections can be dangerous! One of the most important abnormal connections is a dural arteriovenous fistula (dural AVF...

Lea Alhilali, MD

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1/They say form follows function! Brain MRI anatomy is best understood in terms of both form & function. Here’s a thread to help you to remember important functional brain anatom...

Lea Alhilali, MD

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1/Correlate clinically! It’s harder than you think in THALAMUS—where its size is small & but the clinical symptoms are large. Here’s a thread to help you remember the main thalam...

Lea Alhilali, MD

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1/Haunted by questions about stroke imaging? Don’t stand a ghost of chance w/perfusion imaging? Do you know what a ghost infarct core is? Strokes can’t vanish! Or can they? Fin...

Lea Alhilali, MD

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1/Is your understanding of medial temporal anatomy, well, temporary? If only there was a way to make hippocampal anatomy memorable! Here is a thread of the basics of hippocampa...

Lea Alhilali, MD

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1/Want to understand skull base surgery? Just follow your nose! Endoscopic endonasal approach (EEA) through the nose is becoming standard Do YOU know what to look for in these p...

Lea Alhilali, MD

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1/Having trouble remembering what you should look for in vascular dementia on imaging? Almost everyone worked up for dementia has infarcts. Do YOU know which ones are important?...

Lea Alhilali, MD

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1/Is the never ending debate on tonsillitis becoming hard to swallow? Tonsillar or peritonsillar abscess? That is the question! When you look at a neck CT, do YOU know which one...

Lea Alhilali, MD

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1/Do questions about brainstem anatomy cause you to suddenly get a case of locked in syndrome?! Feeling brain dead when trying to localize in the brain stem? Do you try to locali...

Lea Alhilali, MD

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1/Are you in a FOG about MOG? MOG antibody associated disease or MOGAD is a relatively new demyelinating disease Do you wish you knew mo’ about MOGAD? Do you know what to look fo...

Lea Alhilali, MD

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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 overca...

Lea Alhilali, MD

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