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A 42-year-old woman was brought to the emergency department after drowning in the sea. The patient was found drowning, the guards were late to reach her. On arrival, paramedics found him pulseless. After 10 minutes of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the patient regains spontaneous circulation. In the hospital, she is intubated and placed on mechanical ventilation. Her vitals remains stable. After 3 days, the patient remained comatose with fixed dilated pupils. There is a loss of the pupillary light response. An MRI of the brain shows diffuse loss of grey-white matter differentiation with sulcal effacement. which of the following structures has been damaged in this patient?


A) Medulla
B) Midbrain
C) Occipital lobe
D) Parietal lobe
E) Pons

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