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Title: Please help me to solve my question?
Post by: dr.schmidt on December 05, 2011, 05:51:36 PM

A 32-year-old construction worker arrives in the emergency department after an accident on the job. The tendon of the biceps brachii at the elbow has been severed by a laceration that extends 2 cm medially from the tendon.
Which of the following structures is likely to have been injured by medial extension of the laceration?
 A. Brachial artery
 B. Musculocutaneous nerve
 C. Profunda brachii artery
 D. Radial nerve
 E. Ulnar nerve


Regards,
Dr. Schmidt Bander
Usmle (http://www.usmleworldwide.com)

Title: Re: please help me to solve my question?
Post by: Isvascular on December 05, 2011, 06:08:51 PM

Answer: A