Question 140 · LEK · Acute appendicitis
A patient complains of a dull, disturbing, diffuse, deep abdominal pain, which precise location he is unable to determine, but the pain is the strongest at the midline. The 48 z 117 29.06.2026, 14:15 Centrum Egzaminów Medycznych https://test.cem.edu.pl/pytcem/wyswietl_baza_pdf.php patient reports the pain resembles a pain that was accompanying the first symptoms of acute appendicitis 20 years ago. Such a pain is called:
- A. phantom pain.
- B. cluster pain.
- C. somatic pain.
- D. neuralgic pain.
- E. visceral pain.
Hint
Pain carried by autonomic afferents from organs is poorly localized and felt in the midline, unlike sharp, well-localized parietal pain.
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