Nerve Lesions Upper Limb

Question 0

What nerves are most affected by Erb- Duchenne palsy

Answer 0

Musculocutaneous
Suprascapular
Axillary

Question 1

Erb-Duchenne palsy effects what roots

Answer 1

C5 c6

Question 2

What movement causes Erb Duchenne palsy

Answer 2

Excessive displacement of head to opposite side and depression of shoulder on same side

Question 3

What is the classic sign of Erb Duchenne palsy

Answer 3

Waiters tip

Lose of sensation down lateral side of arm

Question 4

What muscles do you lose in Erb Duchenne palsy

Answer 4

Supraspinatus 
Infraspinatus 
Deltoid
Coracobrachialis 
Brachialis 
Biceps brachii
Teres minor

Question 5

What movement causes Klumpke palsy

Answer 5

Excessive abduction of arm

Question 6

What nerve roots (and thus nerves) are affected by Klumpke palsy

Answer 6

T1

Median and ulnar

Question 7

What muscles are lost in Klumpke palsy

Answer 7

All small hand muscles

Question 8

What is the clinical presentation of Klumpke palsy

Answer 8

“Claw hand “

Loss of sensation on medial side of arm

Question 9

If the long thoracic nerve is damaged, what muscle is affected and what clinical presentation occurs

Answer 9

Serratus anterior

Winged scapula

Question 10

If you dislocated your shoulder or break the surgical neck of the humerus what nerve can you damage

Answer 10

Axillary

Question 11

What happens clinically when the axillary nerve is damaged

Answer 11

Deltoid atrophy
Shoulder abduction impaired
Sensation over lower half of deltoid impaired

Question 12

If you have injury in the axilla to the radial nerve, what muscles are affected

Answer 12

Triceps
Anconeus
Long extensors of wrist

Question 13

What clinical presentation is seen when there is an axilla injury to radial nerve

Answer 13

Wrist drop

Question 14

If you fracture the mid shaft of the humerus, what nerve is affected

Answer 14

Radial

Question 15

If you have a fracture to the proximal end of radius what clinical symptoms might present neurologically

Answer 15

No wrist drop

No sensory loss

Question 16

If you have a supracondylar fracture of the humerus, what muscles are affected

Answer 16

Pronator muscles of forearm
Long flexors of wrist and fingers
Muscles of thenar eminence

Question 17

A supracondylar fracture of the humerus affects what nerve

Answer 17

Median

Question 18

What is the clinical presentation with a supracondylar fracture of the humerus

Answer 18

Ape hand

Question 19

What is the clinical presentation with an injury at the wrist that involves median nerve

Answer 19

Ape hand

Question 20

What nerve is in the carpal tunnel

Answer 20

Median

Question 21

If you fracture the medial epicondyle at the elbow, what nerve is affected

Answer 21

Ulnar

Question 22

What muscles are affected by an ulnar nerve injury

Answer 22

Flexor carpi ulnaris
medial half of flexor digitorum profundus
Small muscles of hand except thenar eminence and first 2 lumbricals

Question 23

What happens clinically if there is an injury to the wrist

Answer 23

Small muscles of hand paralyzed

Claw hand