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Wiki Wrist and Hand Mcqs Explained
Wiki Wrist and Hand Mcqs Explained
Wiki Wrist and Hand Mcqs Explained
14. With regard to the deep spaces of the hand the following are correct EXCEPT:
a. The thenar space always contains the first lumbrical muscle – lumbricals in the
central compartment w/ long flexors, superficial arch, digital nerves and vessels
b. The thenar space is overlaid by the flexor tendons to the index finger
c. Infection in the midpalmar space can involve the ulnar three lumbricals
d. The hypothenar space encloses only the hypothenar muscles <= pg 773
e. The thenar space contains the common flexor sheath
18. The following muscles are involved in ulnar and transpalmar adduction of the
thumb
a. Flexor pollicis brevis and flexor pollicis longus
b. Opponens pollicis and adductor pollicis
c. Flexor pollicis longus and opponens pollicis
d. Adductor policis and flexor pollicis breviss <= i.e. flexion and adduction
e. Opponens pollicis and abductor pollicis brevis
23. Interossei
a. Arise from flexor retinaculum
b. Palmar cause abduction
c. Palmar have two heads of origin
d. Innervated by deep branch of the ulnar nerve <=
e. Combined palmar and dorsal causes abduction
31. The following muscles are involved in ulnar and transpalmar adduction of the
thumb
a. Flexor pollicis brevis and flexor pollicis longus
b. Opponens pollicis and adductor pollicis
c. Flexor pollicis longus and opponens pollicis
d. Adductor pollicis and flexor pollicis brevis
e. Opponens pollicis and abductor pollicis brevis
38. The skin of the tip of the index finger is supplied by:
a. The radial nerve only
b. The median nerve only <=
c. The ulnar nerve only
d. The radial and median nerves
e. The radial and ulnar nerves
39. Following a laceration to the anterior surface of the wrist, a patient is unable
to flex the proximal interphalangeal joint of his middle finger when his other
fingers are held in extension. The tendon of which muscle has been divided?
a. Palmaris longus
b. Flexor indicis
c. Flexor digitorum profundus
d. Flexor digitorum superficialis <= attaches to the base of the middle phalanx
e. None of the above
45. the flexor retinaculum attaches to all of the following bones EXCEPT:
a. scaphoid
b. hamate
c. trapezium
d. pisiform
e. capitate