KROK 1 2019 – Question 4 · KROK (Medicine) · Physiology
After a trauma the patient has developed right-sided paralyses and disturbed pain sensitivity. On the left side no paralyses are observed, but pain and thermal sensitivity is disturbed. What is the cause of this condition?
- A. Unilateral right-side spinal cord injury
- B. Midbrain injury
- C. Cerebellar injury
- D. Motor cortex injury
- E. Brainstem injury
Hint
Compare where the motor pathway and the pain-temperature pathway cross the midline relative to the level of damage, and ask what one-sided lesion would separate them onto opposite sides.
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