Following an automobile accident resulting in a cranial base fracture, a patient's tongue deviates to the right when protruded and he has moderate dysarthria. You suspect damage to the:
A) left hypoglossal nerve.
B) right hypoglossal nerve.
C) right glossopharyngeal nerve.
D) left glossopharyngeal nerve.
E) superior root of ansa cervicalis
Ans: B
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