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A 62-year-old man has a sudden onset of involuntary swinging movements of his right arm. An ischemic injury to which of the following structures would most likely explain this sign?

  A
  B
  C: I'm sorry, that's not correct. This is the subsantia nigra pars compacta, the dopamine-producing cells that are lost in Parkinson's disease which is a hypokinetic disorder. A lesion here would not lead to the hyperkinetic disorder described in the question.
  D
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