NBME 23 Answers : Block 4 : #50 = A 48-year-old man has complete loss of hearing in ...

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What a terrible picture. They they covered up part of it with lines. WTF

sympathetikey Agreed. +

catch-22 Start at the pontomedullary junction and count from superior to inferiorly (or medially to laterally): VI, VII, VIII, IX. +

yotsubato I looked at the left side (cause the nerves arent frazzled up). Saw 7 and 8 come out together nicely. Then picked the right sided version of 8 +

lolmedlol why is it not H or I on the right side; the stem says he has hearing loss on the right side, so the lesion should be ipsilateral no? +1

catch-22 You're looking at the ventral aspect of the brainstem. +2

catch-22 ^Also, you know it's the ventral aspect because you can see the medullary pyramids. +

amarousis think of the belly of the pons as a pregnant lady. so you're looking at the front of her +1

hello which letter is CN IX in this diagram? +