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Exam questionKROK 1Medicine ยท 2014

As a result of a continuous chronic encephalopathy, a patient has developed spontaneous motions and a disorder of torso muscle tone. These are the symptoms of the disorder of the following conduction tract:

Answer options

  1. Tractus corticospinalis
  2. Tractus rubrospinalis
  3. Tractus corticonuclearis
  4. Tractus tectospinalis
  5. Tractus spinothalamicus
Correct answer

Tractus rubrospinalis

Explanation

The rubrospinal tract (from the red nucleus to the spinal cord) is responsible for large muscle movements in the upper part of the body. The corticospinal tract involves the lower limbs.

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