KROK 1 2017 – Question 92 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
A patient complaining of pain in the left shoulder-blade region has been diagnosed with myocardial infarction. What kind of pain does the patient have?
- A. Radiating
- B. Protopathic
- C. Epicritic
- D. Phantom
- E. Visceral
Hint
Ask why pain from a diseased internal organ can be felt in a distant body region, given how sensory neurons of the heart and of the skin share spinal segments.
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