asmi
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You're on an orthopedic surgery rotation. Your patient has had a trauma that caused him to lose the ability to extend at the wrist. Your resident tells you that the damage was to a cord and the nerve was severed at that cord. Which muscle do you expect to be paralyzed, other than the ones involved in extension at the wrist?
A. Adductor pollicis
B. Brachialis
C. Deltoid
D. Flexor carpi radialis
E. Pronator teres
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| mdwannabe
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A..
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| asmi
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answer given is C :roll:
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| mdwannabe
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may be I forgot something... Aillary N. supplies Deltoid... but I have missread the q, I saw aBductor.
Reread the q. Posterior cord injury...axillary nerve. Deltoid ofcoz!!!
Sorry..this how I usually mess up...read too quickly
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thats right  posterior cord 2 nerves imp....radial and axillary
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