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25 Cards in this Set
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A 27-year-old patient exhibits a loss of skin sensation and paralysis of muscles on the plantar aspect of the medial side of the foot. Which of the following nerves is most likely damaged?
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Tibial
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A patient with a deep knife wound in the buttock walks with a waddling gait that is characterized by the pelvis falling toward one side at each step. Which of the following nerves is damaged?
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Superior gluteal nerve
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A patient is unable to prevent anterior displacement of the femur on the tibia when the knee is flexed. Which of the following ligaments is most likely damaged?
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Posterior cruciate
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A 41-year-old man was involved in a fight and felt weakness in extending the knee joint. On examination, he was diagnosed with a lesion of the femoral nerve. Which of the following symptoms would be a result of this nerve damage?
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Paralysis of the vastus lateralis muscle
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A 47-year-old woman is unable to invert her foot after she stumbled on her driveway. Which of the following nerves are most likely injured?
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Deep peroneal and tibial
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A 22-year-old patient is unable to "unlock" the knee joint to permit flexion of the leg. Which of the following muscles is most likely damaged?
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Popliteus
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A patient presents with sensory loss on adjacent sides of the great and second toes and impaired dorsiflexion of the foot. These signs probably indicate damage to which of the following nerves.
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Deep peroneal
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A motorcyclist falls fom his bike in an accident and gets a deep gash that severs the superficial peroneal nerve near its origin. Which of the following muscles is paralyzed?
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Peroneous longus
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A 67-year-old patient has been given a course of antibiotics by gluteal intramuscular injections after a major abdominal surgery. To avoid damaging the sciatic nerve during an injection, the needle should be inserted into which of the following areas?
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Upper lateral quadrant of the gluteal region
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A 20-year-old patient cannot flex and medially rotate the thigh while running and climing. Which of the following muscles is most likely damaged?
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Tensor fasciae latae
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A 21-year-old man was involved in a motorcycle accident, resulting in destruction of the groove in the lower surface of the cuboid bone. Which of the following muscle tendons is most likely damaged?
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Peroneous longus
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A construction worker falls feet first from a roof. He sustains a fracture of the groove on the undersurface of the sustentaculum tali of the calcaneus bone. Which of the following muscle tendons is most likely torn?
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Flexor hallucis longus
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A thoracic surgeon is going to collect a portion of the greater saphenous vein for coronary bypass surgery. He has observed that this vein runs
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Superficial to the fascia lata of the thigh
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A 52-year-old woman slipped and fell and now complains of being unable to extend her leg at the knee joint. Which of the following muscles was paralyzed as a result of this accident?
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Quadraceps femoris
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A patient experiences weakness in dorsiflexing and inverting the foot. Which of the following muscles is damaged?
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Tibialis anterior
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A 62-year-old woman slips and falls on the bathroom floor. As a result, she has posterior dislocation of the hip joint and a fracture of the neck of the femur. Rupture of the ligamentum teres capitis femoris may lead to damage to a branch of which of the following arteries?
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Obturator
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A 62-year-old woman slips and falls on the bathroom floor. As a result, she has posterior dislocation of the hip joint and a fracture of the neck of the femur. Fracture of the neck of the femur results in avascular necrosis of the femoral head, probably resulting from lack of blood supply from which of the following arteries?
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Medial femoral circumflex
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A 62-year-old woman slips and falls on the bathroom floor. As a result, she has posterior dislocation of the hip joint and a fracture of the neck of the femur. If the acetabulum is fractured at its posterosuperior margin by dislocation of the hip joint, which of the following bones could be involved?
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Illium
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A 62-year-old woman slips and falls on the bathroom floor. As a result, she has posterior dislocation of the hip joint and a fracture of the neck of the femur. The woman experiences weakness when abducting and medially rotating the thigh after this accident. Which of the following muscles is most likely damaged?
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Gluteus minimus
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A 62-year-old woman slips and falls on the bathroom floor. As a result, she has posterior dislocation of the hip joint and a fracture of the neck of the femur. The woman undergoes hip surgery. If all of the arteries that are part of the cruciate anastomosis of the upper thigh are ligated, which of the following arteries maintains blood flow?
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Superior gluteal
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A 34-year-old woman sustains a deep cut on the dorum of the foot just distal to her ankle joint by a falling kitchen knife. A physician in the mergency department has ligated the dorsalis pedis artery proximal to the injured area. Which of the following conditions most likely occurs as a result of the injury?
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Reduction in blood flow in the medial tarsal artery
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A patient experiences paralysis of the muscle that originated from the femur and contributes directly to the stability of the knee joint. Which muscle is involved?
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Vastus lateralis
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A patient is involved in a motorcycle wreck that results in avulsion of the skin over the anterolateral leg and ankle. Which of the following strctures is most likely deustroyed with this type of injury?
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Superficial peroneal nerve
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A knife wound penetrates the superficial vein that terninates in the popliteal vein. Bleeding occurs from which vessel?
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Lesser saphenous vein
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A 10-year-old boy falls from a tree house. The resultant heavy compression of the sole of his foot against the ground caused by a fracture of the head of the talus. Which of the following structures is unable to function normally?
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Medial lonitudinal arch
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