KROK 1 2023 – Question 62 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
A patient was diagnosed with an injury to the middle third of the shoulder with an incomplete rupture of the median nerve. In addition to motor and sensory disorders below the injury site, the patient complains of an unbearable sharp burning pain. What is the nature of this pain?
- A. Projected pain
- B. Somatic pain
- C. Phantom pain
- D. Referred pain
- E. Causalgia
Hint
The nerve is only partly damaged and the limb is present; consider how long the pain lasts, what its quality is, and whether sympathetic fibres could be taking part.
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