KROK 1 2007 – Question 112 · KROK (Medicine) · Human Anatomy
A 40 y.o. woman was admitted to the infectious diseases department with high body temperature. Objectively: evident meningeal symptoms. A spinal cord punction was made. What anatomic formation was punctured?
- A. Spatium epidurale
- B. Cisterna cerebellomedullaris posterior
- C. Cavum trigeminale
- D. Spatium subarachnoideum
- E. Spatium subdurale
Hint
Remember where cerebrospinal fluid circulates around the cord, and that a puncture made below the end of the cord can sample it without risking the cord itself.
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