PLE-600
A 16-year-old boy suffers a traumatic groin injury during a soccer match. The urologist notices tenderness and swelling of the boy’s left testicle that may be produced by thrombosis in which of the following veins?
PLE Category: Anatomy
PLE-596
A 16-year-old boy is injured in an automobile accident. He has a fracture of the shaft of the humerus. Which of the following arteries may be damaged?
PLE-597
A 16-year-old boy is injured in an automobile accident. He has a fracture of the shaft of the humerus. Which of the following nerves is most likely damaged?
PLE-598
A 16-year-old boy is involved in a group fight, and a stab wound lacerates a ventral root of his thoracic spinal nerve. Cell bodies of the injured nerve fibers are located in which of the following nervous structures?
PLE-592
A 15-year-old patient received a stab wound, and axons of the general somatic efferent (GSE) neurons to the shoulder muscles were severed. The damaged axons:
PLE-593
A 16-year-old boy fell from his motorcycle and complains of numbness of the lateral part of the arm. Examination reveals that the axillary nerve is severed. Which of the following types of axons is most likely spared?
PLE-594
A 16-year-old boy is injured in an automobile accident. He has a fracture of the shaft of the humerus. As a result of this fracture, the patient shows lack of sweating on the back of the arm and forearm. Cell bodies of the damaged nerve fibers involved in sweating are located in which of the following structures?
PLE-595
A 16-year-old boy is injured in an automobile accident. He has a fracture of the shaft of the humerus. Following this accident, the patient has no cutaneous sensation in which of the following areas?
PLE-591
A 15-year-old patient received a laceration of the posterior intercostal nerves by a penetrated knife blade. A pathologist obtained needle biopsy tissues and observed numerous degenerated cell bodies of the unipolar or pseudounipolar neurons. Which of the following structures would most likely provide the abnormal cell morphology?
PLE-589
A 15-year-old gymnast silver medalist falls from the parallel bar and complains of pains from the knee and ankle joints. On physical examination, her physician found that the muscle responsible for flexing the leg at the knee joint and plantar flexing the foot is severely weakened. Which of the following muscles involved in both movements was most likely damaged in this accident?