Blood Vessels

Question 1

A basketball player was hit in the leg by am opponent during the match. Which of the following arteries is likely to compress and cause ischemia because of the bruise and damage to the extensor muscles of the leg?

A. Popliteal
B. Deep femoral
C. Anterior tibial
D. Posterior tibial

Answer 1

C. Anterior tibial

Question 2

A knife wound penetrates the superficial vein that terminates in the popliteal vein.
Which of the following veins most likely to be injured in this case?

A. Great saphaneous vein
B. Posterior tibial vein
C. Small saphaneous vein
D. Anterior tibial vein

Answer 2

C. Small saphaneous vein

Question 3

A 10 year old boy falls off his bicycle has difficulty in moving his shoulder and is brought to an emergency department. His x ray and angiogram reveal a fracture of the surgical neck of his humerus and bleeding from the point of the fracture.

Which of the following arteries most likely damaged

A. Axillary
B. Subscapular
C. Posterior circumflex humeral
D. Thoracodorsal

Answer 3

C. Posterior circumflex humeral

Question 4

A 44 year old man falls from a tree and develops a severe scalp hematoma. The superficial temporal artery continues to bleed internally because the man takes warfarin sodium ( coumadin) for an artificial heart valve.

Which of the following arteries may be ligated to control the bleeding?

A. Internal carotid artery
B. Occipital artery
C. Maxillary artery
D. External carotid artery

Answer 4

D. External carotid artery

• internal carotid artery does not give branches
• common carotid artery divide into external and internal at inferior border of thyroid gland

Question 5

A 42 year old man with a history of jaundice has been examined for hepatitis viruses. In an attempt to obtain a blood sample from the patient’s median cubital vein, the nurse inadvertently withdrew arterial blood. Which of the following arteries most likely the blood has been

A. Brachial
B. Radial
C. Ulnar
D. Common interosseous

Answer 5

A. Brachial

Question 6

A 62 year old woman slips and falls on the bathroom floor. As a result she has a posterior dislocation of the hip joint and a fracture of the neck of the femur. Later she was having avascular necrosis of the head of the femur.

Which of the following arteries most likely affected in this case?

A. Obturator
B. Lateral circumflex humeral
C. Inferior gluteal
D. Medial femoral circumflex

Answer 6

D. Medial femoral circumflex