KROK 1 2011 – Question 69 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathomorphology
Autopsy of a 75-year-old man with a long history of atherosclerosis revealed a grey irregular-shaped focus of loose consistency in the right parietotemporal region of brain. What is the most likely cause of this process?
- A. Thrombosis of basilar artery
- B. Thrombosis of the right anterior cerebral artery
- C. Thrombosis of the right medial cerebral artery
- D. Thrombosis of the right posterior cerebral artery
- E. Thrombosis of tomentum cerebri
Hint
A grey, soft focus in an atherosclerotic brain suggests ischaemic softening; work out which major trunk feeds the lateral parietotemporal cortex.
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