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Hyperextension of neck:
Innervation affected
Examples of such a situation
Manifesting Symptom
Affects upper trunk

MVA to shoulder, birth trauma

Erb-Duchenne Palsy (waiter's tip); paralysis of abductors, arm is medially rotated
Situation where C7 root is compressed.
Herniated disc
Surgical neck (humerus) fracture affects this nerve.
Axillary nerve injury
Dislocation of humerus affects this nerve.
Axillary nerve
IM injections can affect this nerve.
Axillary Nerve
Axillary nerve innervates ______.

What does this muscle group do?
Axillary nerve innervates deltoids

Results in abduction
Midshaft fracture of humerus affects this nerve.
Radial nerve in spiral groove
Lower trunk of brachial plexus:
Situations that would compress it
Manifesting Symptom
Cervical rib
Pancoast tumor of the lung

Results in Klumpke's Palsy (total claw hand) and Thoracic Outlet Syndrome:
What is thoracic outlet syndrome?

Causes?
due to child birth defect or to compression of lower trunk of brachial plexus;
-atrophy of thenar/hypothenar eminences (palm near thumb)
-atrophy of interosseous muscles
-sensory defects of medial forearm/hand
-disappearance of radial pulse when moving head to opposite side
Incorrect use of crutch in axilla affects this nerve.
Affects radial nerve

Same effect if drunk and lay over a bench (leads to Saturday night palsy)--WRIST DROP
Supracondylar fracture of humerus affects this nerve.
Median nerve
Fracture of medial epicondyle of humerus affects this nerve.
Ulnar nerve
Repeat minor trauma affects this nerve.
Ulnar nerve
This nerve is compressed in carpal tunnel syndrome.
Median nerve
Superficial laceration of the palm affects this nerve.
Recurrent branch of median nerve
Trauma to the heel of the hand affects this nerve.
Ulnar nerve
Fracture of the hook of hamate affects this nerve.
Ulnar nerve
Radial Nerve:
What does it innervate?
What is seen with damage?
Radial nerve innervates the BEST extensors:
Brachioradialis
Extensor of wrist and fingers
Supinators
Triceps; will see WRIST DROP

SATURDAY NIGHT PALSY
Ulnar Nerve:
What does it innervate?
What is seen with damage?
CLAW HAND (2nd and 3rd fingers remain straight, 4th and 5th are flexed)
Can't adduct thumb
Can't adduct/abduct fingers (lose interosseous mm)
Median Nerve:
What is seen with damage?
Innervates pronation; can't pronate if damaged

Leads to bishop's hand, pope's hand--4th and 5th digits are clawed

Ape's hand: can't oppose thumbs (it innervates thenar muscles); can only abduct/adduct thumb. can't touch fingers with thumb.

Carpal Tunnel
An elderly woman with chronic osteoarthritis and diffuse pain presents with numbness and tingling over lateral digits that radiates up to elbow. Exam reveals wasting of thenar eminence.

Diagnosis?
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Musculocutaneous nerve:
What is seen with damage?
Extensory (innervates biceps, brachialis); innervates skin of lateral forearm

Damage:
Weak arm and forearm extension
Weak forearm supination
Weak arm flexion
Loss of sensation to lateral forearm
Median nerve
Thumb, pronators
Distal Ulnar Nerve Injury
Distal Ulnar Nerve lzn: ulnar canal syndrome--lose medial lumbrical function; 4th and 5th digits are clawed.
Inability to extend 4th and 5th digits.
Claw hand--distal ulnar nerve lzn
Inability to flex 1st and 2nd digits.
Median nerve lesion--pope's blessing
Inability to extend 1st and 2nd digits.
Median Claw--median nerve injury
Inability to flex 4th and 5th digits.
Proximal ulnar nerve injury.
This nerve innervates interosseus muscles.
Ulnar
Claw hand
ulnar nerve injury
Ape hand
Unopposed thumbs
median hand
Wrist drop
Radial nerve
Scapular winging
Long thoracic nerve (innervates serratus anterior)
Unable to wipe bottom
Humerus exention, adduction, medially rotating--all controlled by lattisimus dorsi

Thoracodorsal nerve
Loss of forearm pronation
Median nerve
Cannot adduct or abduct fingers
Ulnar nerve
Loss of arm abduction.
Axillary nerve to deltoid
Weak lateral rotation of arm.
Suprascapular nerve innervating infraspinatus

Can also be axillary (goes to deltoids).
Loss of arm/forearm flexion.
Musculocutaneous nerve (innervates biceps, coracobrachialis etc)
Loss of forearm extension.
Radial
Trouble initiating arm abduction.
Initial abduction = supraspinatus

Innervated by suprascapular nerve.
Unable to abduct beyond 10 degrees.
Deltoid--axillary nerve
Unable to abduct beyond horizontal.
Serratus anterior--long thoracic nerve

Trapezius--spinal accessory nerve
Shaft of humerus
radial nerve
Surgical neck of humerus
axillary nerve
Supracondyle of humerus
median
Medial epicondyle
ulnar
Anterior shoulder dislocation
Axillary; runs with posterior circumflex artery!
Injury to carpal tunnel
Median nerve
Adolescent falls, injurs his elbow, and can't feel the medial part of his palm.

Which nerve?
What injury?
Medial epicondyle

Ulnar nerve injury
Athlete falls on arm. Radiograph shows midshaft break on humerus.

Which nerve and artery have highest risk of being damaged?
Radial Nerve

Deep brachial artery
Abdominal pain
Ascites
Hepatomegaly
No JVD
Budd-Chiari Syndrome (posthepativ venous thrombosis)
Achilles tendon xanthoma
xanthoma = fat under skin

Familial hypercholesterolemia (low LDL receptor signaling)
Adrenal hemorrhage
Hypotension
DIC
Waterhouse-Friderichsen (meningococcemia)
Arachnodactyly
Lens dislocation
Aortic dissection
Hyperflexible Joints
Marfan's Syndrome
(Fibrillin defect)
Athlete with polycythemia
EPO injections
Back pain
Fever
Night sweats
Weight loss
Pott's Dz--Vertebral TB
Bilateral Hilar Adenopathy
Uveitis
Sarcoidosis
Blue Sclera
Osteogenesis Imperfecta--type I collagen defect
Bluish line on gingiva
Burton's line (Lead poisoning)
Bone pain
Bone enlargement
Arthritis
Paget's disease of bone (inc'd oblast and oclast activity)

would have inc'd alkaline phosphatase (signal of bone breakdown?)
Bounding pulses
Diastolic Heart Murmur
Head Bobbing
Aortic regurgitation

Head bobbing = sign of bounding pulses
Cafe au lait spots
Lisch nodules (iris hamartoma)
Hamartoma = normal tissue in abnormally high quantities

Assocd w/neurofibromatosis I, II
Cafe au lait spots
Polyostotic fibrous dysplasia
Precocious puberty
McCune-Albright
Calf pseudohypertrophy
Duchenne's MD
Becker's MD
Cherry red spot on macula
Tey Sachs
Niemann-Pick
Central Retinal artery occlusion
Chest pain
Pericardial effusion/friction rub
Persistent fever following MI
Dressler's syndrome (autoimmune post MI fibrinous pericarditis)
Child uses arms to stand up from squat
Gower's sign (Duchenne)
Child with fever develops red rash on face that spreads to body
Erythema infectiosum AKA
Parvovirus B19 (fifth disease)
Chorea
Dementia
Caudate Degeneration
HD (AD CAG repeat expansion)
Chronic exercise intolerance with myalgia
Fatigue
Painful cramps
McArdle's dz (muscular dystrophy)
Cold intolerance
Hypothyroidism
What diseases are associated with a decrease in ACh?
HD
AD
This disease is filled with Cs.

What C's?
Chorea
Crazy (dementia)
Caudate degeneration
CAG repeats
Choline (ACh decrease)

Subsequent degenerations develop disease earlier (anticipation)
What disease is associated with an increase in ACh?
PD
Conjugate lateral gaze palsy
Horizontal diplopia
Conjugate lateral gaze palsy:
Ask patient to look right; adducting eye will stay still
Abducting eye will shift over w/nystagmus

On frontward gaze, can focus on finger

Cause: Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (damage to MLF; bilateral = MS, unilateral = stroke)
Continuous machinery heart murmur
Patent ductus arteriosus
Cutaneous/dermal edema due to connective tissue deposition
Myxedema (hypothyroidism, Graves)
Dark purple skin/mouth nodules
Kaposi's sarcoma (usually AIDS patients; assocd w/HHV-8)
Deep labored breathing
Hyperventilation
Kussmaul breathing; seen in DKA

this is body's way of trying to correct acidosis that goes along with DKA
Dermatitis
Dementia
Diarrhea
Vitamin B3 deficiency
Dilated cardiomyopathy
Edema
Polyneuropathy
Wet beriberi--thiamine (B1) deficiency
Dog or cat bite resulting in infection
Pasteurella (cellulitis at inoculation site)
Dry Eyes
Dry Mouth
Arthritis
Sjögren's syndrome
Dysphagia due to esophageal webs
Glossitis
Iron deficiency anemia
Plummer-Vinson syndrome--may progress to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
Elastic skin
Hypermobility of joints
Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (collagen defect, type III usually)
Type I Collagen Defect
OI
Enlarged hard left supraclavicular node
Virchow's node--abdominal metastasis
Erythroderma
LAD
HSM
Atypical T Cells
Sezary Syndrome (cutaneous T cell lymphoma) or mycosis fungoides
Facial muscle spasm upon tapping
Chvostek's sign due to HYPOcalcemia
Fat
Female
Forty
Fertile
Cholelithiasis (bile duct blockage)
Fever
Chills
HA
Myalgia following abx for syphilis
Jarisch-Herxheimer Rxn--rapid lysis of spirochetes results in toxin release
Fever
Cough
Conjunctivitis
Coryza
Diffuse Rash
Note: Coryza = head cold

This is measles (morbillivirus)
Fever
Night Sweats
Weight Loss
B syx (lymphoma)
Fibrous plaques in soft tissue of penis
Peyronie's dz
Gout
MR
Self-mutilating behavior
Boy
Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome--HGPRT deficiency (purine salvage PW)
Green-yellow rings around peripheral cornea
Kayser-Fleischer rings (copper accumulation from Wilson's Dz)
Hamartomatous GI polyps
Hyperpigmentation of mouth/feet/hands
Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (genetic benign polyposis; can cause bowel obstruciton; inc'd cancer risk)
HSM
Osteoporosis
Neuro Syx
Gaucher's Dz--crinkled tissue paper cytoplasm
Hereditary nephritis
Sensorineural hearing loss
Cataracts
Alport's Syndrome (type IV collagen mutation)
Type IV Collagen Mutation
Alport's Syndrome
Can't see
Can't pee
Can't hear
Alport's syndrome
Hypercoagulability leading to migrating DVTs and vasculitis
Trousseaus's sign--adenoca of pancreas or lung
Latent tetany
Hypocalcemia (other Trousseau's sign)
Hyperphagia
Hypersexuality
Hyperorality
Hyperdocility
Kluver-Bucy syndrome--bilateral amygdala lzn
HTN
Hypokalemia
Metabolic Acidosis
Primary hyperaldosteronism
Hypotension
Hyperkalemia
Metabolic Alkalosis
Adrenal insufficiency (low aldosterone)

Can be caused by Waterhouse-Friedrichson (adrenal hemorrhage), sprinolocatone
Hypoxemia
Polycythemia
Hypercapnia
Blue bloater--chronic bronchitis (hyperplasia of mucus cells)
Indurated, ulcerated genital lesion
Nonpainful: chancre--syphilis
Painful: chancroid--haemophylis ducreyi