Clinical Anatomy — Flashcards

Flashcard 81: _____ result from portosystemic shunting between the superior rectal (portal) and middle/inferior rectal (systemic) veins

Answer: Anorectal varices

Flashcard 82: _____ neuroma may occur due to the entrapment of branches of medial plantar nerve.

Answer: Mortons

Flashcard 83: _____ cell (sphenoethmoidal cell) is surgically important as internal carotid artery may be related to its lateral wall

Answer: Onodi

Flashcard 84: Injury to the _____ nerve (C5-C7 (nerve roots)) is commonly due to upper trunk compression.

Answer: musculocutaneous

Flashcard 85: Foot drop is characterized by loss of _____ and dorsiflexion (movements) of the foot.

Answer: eversion

Flashcard 86: Which muscle layers are pierced during the insertion of an intercostal drain? _____ and the intercostal muscles.

Answer: Serratus anterior

Flashcard 87: Normal Left ventricle thickness is _____ to 1.5 cm

Answer: 1.3

Flashcard 88: A lesion to the _____ results in "Saturday night palsy", which presents as wrist drop.

Answer: radial nerve

Extra: Saturday night palsy occurs due to compression of the radial nerve against the humerus (classically from draping an arm over a chair while asleep). Since the radial nerve innervates the extensors of the wrist and fingers, the characteristic finding is wrist drop.

Flashcard 89: Wrist slash injuries:A deep laceration on the _____ side of the wrist may injure the radial artery, median nerve, flexor carpi radialis tendon, and palmaris longus tendon

Answer: radial

Flashcard 90: The superior gluteal nerve is commonly injured due to _____ injection to the upper medial gluteal region (iatrogenic).

Answer: intramuscular