PLE-799
A 58-year-old man has pus in the loose connective tissue layer of the scalp, and consequently, his superior sagittal sinus is infected. The arachnoid granulations in the infected sinus:
PLE Category: Anatomy
PLE-797
A 58-year-old man arrives at a nearby hospital complaining of fever, headache, nausea, and vomiting. Upon conducting laboratory tests, it is discovered that he has an infection. Further radiologic examination determines that the infection is localized to the cavernous sinus. Which of the following nerves would remain unaffected by this condition?
PLE-798
A 58-year-old man complains of numbness in the anterior cervical triangle. Therefore, damage has occurred to which of the following nerves?
PLE-794
A 57-year-old man with a one pack/day history of cigarette smoking is found to have a malignant squamous cell carcinoma located in the superior sulcus of Pancoast (superior apex of the lung). Shortly after the diagnosis is known, the patient develops symptoms that consist of shoulder pain along with ptosis, miosis, enophthalmos, and anhidrosis. Which of the following nerves is most likely compressed by the tumor mass?
PLE-795
A 57-year-old patient recently suffered a myocardial infarction in the area of the apex of the heart. The occlusion by atherosclerosis is in which of the following arteries?
PLE-796
A 57-year-old stockbroker is brought to the cardiac catheterization laboratory emergently after evaluation in the emergency department has determined that he is suffering from an acute myocardial infarction. During the catheterization, he is found to have inadequate blood flow in the artery that runs aside the great cardiac vein in the anterior interventricular sulcus of the heart. This is most likely an acute occlusion of the:
PLE-791
A 55-year-old man arrives at a hospital complaining of abdominal pain, jaundice, loss of appetite, and weight loss. During the examination of his radiographs and CT scans, a doctor discovers a slowly growing tumor in the uncinate process of the pancreas. Which of the following structures is most likely being compressed by this tumor?
PLE-792
A 55-year-old man with a long history of alcohol abuse presents to the emergency department with rapidly increasing abdominal distention most likely resulting from an alteration in portal systemic blood flow. Which of the following characteristics is associated with the portal vein or the portal venous system?
PLE-793
A 55-year-old patient is implanted with an artificial cardiac pacemaker. Which of the following conductive tissues of the heart had a defective function that required the pacemaker?
PLE-788
A 54-year-old woman with a severe middle ear infection comes to a hospital. On examination, a physician finds that the infection has injured the tympanic nerve. The damaged nerve: