Sunday, March 3, 2013

Answer and Explanation 2

2.  Choice A is the correct answer.  Patients with unilateral weakness or sensory complaints have the lesion in the contralateral cerebral hemisphere.  A brain stem infarct would cause contralateral weakness or sensory complaints on the contralateral side, it would cause ipsilateral weakness or sensory complaints in the pace.  Occipital CVA's typically cause hemivisual loss to the contralateral from the contralateral hemisphere.  




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