MSK 1 - Upper Limbs 1 Flashcards
What shape is the axilla?
The axilla is roughly pyramidal in shape and has an apex, base, and 4 walls.
What are the following walls of the axilla formed by:
- anterior
- posterior
- medial
- lateral
- Anterior
- Pectoralis major and pectoralis minor
- Posterior
- Subscapularis, tere major and latissmus dorsi
- Medial
- Thoracic wall and serratus anterior
- Lateral
- Intertubercular of the humerus
What is A?
Brachial plexus
What is B?
Axillary lymph nodes
What is C?
Axillary vein
What is D?
Axillary artery
The axillary artery is the continuation of which artery?
Subclavian artery
At what anatomical point does the axillary artery begin?
Lateral border of first rib
The axillary artery continues beyond the axilla as which vessel?
Brachial artery
At what anatomical point does the name of the axillary artery change?
Lower margin of teres major
The enlargement of the axillary lymph nodes is common in what?
The enlargement of axillary lymph nodes is common in infection of the upper limb, and in malignant processes involving the breast tissue.
What can happen to the axillary artery in response to perfuse bleeding of upper limb?
The axillary artery is a point where vasculature can be compressed (via a tourniquet) in response to profuse bleeding to the upper limb – for example after tissue trauma
Brachial plexis is formed by the ventral rami of what?
C 5 to T 1
What are the different trunks of the brachial plexus?
Upper trunk
Lower trunk
MIddle trunk
What nerve roots form the upper, middle and lower trunks of brachial plexus?
- Upper
- C5 and C6
- Middle
- C7
- Lower
- C8 and T1
What can the brachial plexus be further subdivided into?
Roots > trunks > divisions > cords > terminal branches
What is A?
Roots of brachial plexus
What is B?
Trunks of brachial plexus
What is C?
Divisions of brachial plexus
What is E?
Cords of brachial plexus
What is E?
Terminal branches of brachial plexus
The cords of the brachial plexus are named according to what?
their position in relation to the axillary artery in the axilla.
Injury to the upper trunk of brachial plexus causes what?
Erb’s palsy
What is the presentation of Erb’s palsy?
- Waiters tip appearance of upper limb
- Medial rotation of the arm and wrist flexion
What groups of muscles are affected by Erb’s palsy?
Shoulder (deltoid, infraspinatus, levator scapulae), arm flexors (biceps, brachialis) and supinator
What causes Erb’s palsy?
This is caused by a hyper-extension injury of the head from the shoulder
Injury to the lower trunk causes what?
Klumpke’s palsy
What muscles are affacted in Klumpe’s palsy?
- Intrinsic muscles of hand (typically claw hand)
- Flexors of wrist and flexors of fingers
What at birth can commonly cause Erb’s palsy and/or Klumpke’s palsy?
Shoulder dystocia
What are the 5 terminal branches of the cords from the brachial plexus?
- Axillary nerve from the posterior cord
- Radial nerve from the posterior cord
- Musculocutaneous nerve from the lateral cord
- Ulnar nerve from the medial cord
- Median nerve from both the lateral and medial cord
What cords of the brachial plexus do the following come from:
- axillary nerve
- radial nerve
- musculocutaneous nerve
- ulnar nerve
- median nerve
- Axillary nerve
- Posterior cord
- Radial nerve
- Posterior cord
- Musculocutaenous nerve
- Lateral cord
- Ulnar nerve
- Medial cord
- Median nerve
- Both lateral and medial cord
What is A?
Subclavian artery
What is B?
Axillary artery
What is C?
Brachial artery
What is D?
Ulnar artery
What is D?
Ulnar artery
What is E?
Radial artery
What is A?
Cephalic vein
What is B?
Median cubital vein
What is C?
Basilic vein
What is D?
Cephalic vein
What is E?
Basilic vein
What is F?
Dorsal venous network
What is the most common place for venopuncture and cannulation?
Upper limb veins
Where do all of the superficial veins of the upper limb lie?
in the subcutaneous tissue, just underneath the skin making them easy to access for various procedures.
Which of the cephalic and basilic vein arises from the medial and lateral ends of the dorsal venous arch?
- Cephalic vein
- Lateral end
- Basilic vein
- Medial end
What does the median cubital vein shunt blood between?
Median cubital vein is a large communicating vein which shunts blood from the cephalic vein to the basilic vein
Which of the cephalic and basilic veins ascends on the lateral and medial aspect of arm?
- Cephalic vein
- Lateral aspect
- Basilic
- Median aspect
Where does the cephalic vein pass deep and what does it drain into?
Piercing the clavipectoral fascia draining into the axillary vein
Where does the basilic vein pass deep and what does it become?
Passing deep at the mid-humeral level and eventually becoming the axillary vein at the lower border of teres minor.
Where does the basilic vein become the axillary vein?
Lower border of teres minor
What is the area of skin supplies by one spinal segment called?
Dermatome
What dermatomes are the following:
- thumb
- index finger
- middle finger
- ring finger
- pinky
- Thumb
- C6
- Index finger
- C7
- Middle finger
- C7
- Ring finger
- C8
- Pinky
- C8
What is:
- A
- B
- C
A - C6
B - C7
C - C8
What is:
- D
- E
D - T1
E - C5
What is:
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
F - C5
G - C6
H - C7
I - C8
J - T1
What is:
- K
- L
- M
K - C8
L - C7
M - C6
What happens following an injury to a spinal root?
Following an injury to a spinal root a sensory loss (paraesthesia) will be mapped on the skin corresponding to that specific dermatome.
What do all lymphatic vessels of the upper limb drain into?
Axillary nodes
What are the 5 groups of the axillary lymph nodes?
- Anterior or pectoral group
- Posterior of subscapular group
- Apical group
- Central group
- Lateral or brachial group
What lymph nodes of axillary, internal thoracic or superficial inguinal will be involved in spread of cancer/infection that begins in the following areas:
- little finger
- scapular region
- medial part of the breast
- lateral part of breast
- infection around umbillicus
- Little finger
- Axillary
- Scapular
- Axillary
- Medial breast
- Internal thoracic
- Lateral breast
- Axillary
- Umbillicus
- Both axillary and superficial inguinal groups
Why can infections/tumours around umbillicis spread to both auxillary and superficial inguinal nodes?
Equidistance from axillary and inguinal nodes so could go to either
What is the pectoral girdle?
The pectoral girdle or (shoulder girdle) is the set of bones which connects the upper limb to the axial skeleton on each side.
What is A?
Scapula
What is B?
Clavicle
What is C?
Acromioclavicular joint
What is D?
Sternoclavicular joint
What are the bones and joints of the pectoral girdle?
- Bones
- Scapula
- Clavicle
- Joints
- Acromioclavicular joint
- Sternoclavicular joint
What is the joint where the upper limb and pectoral girdle articulate?
Glenohumeral joint
What can help you to orientate and ‘side’ the clavical?
- The lateral aspect of a clavicle is flatter than the medial aspect
- The superior surface is smoother than the inferior surface
- The conoid tubercle – attachment for the conoid ligament – is on the inferior aspect of the lateral portion of the clavicle
How do the following surfaces of clavicle compare to each other:
- lateral to medial
- superior to medial
- Lateral flatter than medial
- Superior smoother than inferior
What is the attachment for the conoid ligament on the clavicle?
Conoid tubercle
Where is the conoid tubercle located on the clavicle?
Inferior aspect of the lateral portion