PLE Category: Anatomy

PLE-609

A 20-year-old woman complains of numbness of the nasopharynx after surgical removal of the adenoid. A lesion of which of the following nerves would be expected?

PLE-607

A 20-year-old man came to the emergency department, and his angiogram exhibited that he was bleeding from the vein that is accompanied by the posterior interventricular artery. Which of the following veins is most likely to be ruptured?

PLE-603

A 16-year-old boy with a stab wound received multiple injuries on the upper part of the arm and required surgery. If the brachial artery were ligated at its origin, which of the following arteries would supply blood to the profunda brachii artery?

PLE-604

A 19-year-old boy involved in an automobile accident presents with arm that cannot abduct. His paralysis is caused by damage to which of the following nerves?

PLE-605

A 19-year-old girl is suddenly forced onto the steering wheel while driving and encounters difficulty in exhaling. Which of the following muscles is most likely injured?

PLE-606

A 20-year-old college student came to his doctor’s office for a neurologic examination. His physician told him that normally synapses are absent in or on which of the following structures?

PLE-601

A 16-year-old boy was involved in a gang fight, and a stab wound severed the white rami communicantes at the level of his sixth thoracic vertebra. This injury would result in degeneration of nerve cell bodies in which of the following structures?

PLE-602

A 16-year-old boy was stabbed during a gang fight resulting in transection of the obturator nerve. Which of the following muscles is completely paralyzed?

PLE-599

A 16-year-old boy receives an injury to the phrenic nerve by a knife wound in the neck. The damaged nerve passes by which of the following structures in the neck?