Title: Vestibular Schwannoma
Year: 2014
Awards: AMI Orville Parks Student Best of Show 2014 | AMI Award of Excellence 2014
Medium: Adobe Photoshop CS6 | Wacom Intuos 3 | Layout in Adobe Illustrator CS6
Audience: First year medical students
Supervisors: Dr. Linda Wilson-Pauwels | Andrea Gauthier
Content Expert: Dr. Dee Ballyk
Purpose: This illustration is intended as a supplementation to the content taught to first year medical students about cranial nerves and cranial nerve lesions. The narrow space inside the skull where the cranial nerves exit the brainstem makes it very difficult to learn about their spatial relationship to tumors such as the vestibular schwannoma. I chose an anterior angle of view of the brainstem because I felt that this was the best method to visualize this complex relationship, making it clear as to why the nerves become affected in the order that they do as the disease progresses, and how this relates to the clinical symptoms. The cellular development of the schannoma was also included to show the origin of the disease.
Case Study
A slightly different layout was also created as requested by my content expert, involving a lateral view of the brainstem, and specific for the following case study:
Sketches
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