試題詳解

42. Which of the following statement concerning central pain is least likely:
(A) Central pain is defined as pain caused by a lesion or dysfunction in the CNS.
(B) The most common causes are cerebrovascular lesions, multiple sclerosis and SCI.
(C) In stroke there is a particularly high prevalence in developing central pain among patients with ischaemic and haemorrhagic cerebrovascular lesions.
(D) In stroke the central pain is most frequently a hemipain.
(E) Excessive activity in glutaminergic synapses appears to be part of the mechanism underlying central pain.