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  [Close Window] 		Syringomyelia is a progressive cavitation of tissue around or near the central canal. Such a lesion interrupts the lateral spinothalamic fibers as they cross from one side to another. What would be the expected result of such a lesion:

A) spasticity and hyperreflexia of some skeletal muscles
B) difficulty in walking and tingling sensations in the feet
C) loss of pain and temperature sensation
D) loss of proprioception
E) deficits in two-point discrimination