Review Questions Flashcards
What structure exists in the superior and anterior mediastinum of children, but regresses by adulthood?
The thymus
Name the two innermost intercostal muscles. What do they aid in?
Transversus thoracis and subcostalis muscles. They aid in expiration.
What drains into the right venous angle?
What drains into the left venous angle?
Right: right lymphatic duct
Left: thoracic duct
Which lung lobes are drained by the thoracic duct?
Which heart chambers are drained by the thoracic duct?
Which quadrants of the thorax are drained by the thoracic duct?
Upper left lobe of lung (lower lobes send lymph to the right side)
Right atrium, right ventricle
Upper Left, Lower Left, Lower Right quadrants
Ductus arteriosus involves a shunt from which vessel to which vessel?
a) Aorta Arch => Left pulmonary artery
b) Left pulmonary artery => Aorta Arch
c) Left Atrium => Right Atrium
d) Right Atrium => Left Atrium
b) LEFT pulmonary artery to the aortic arch
A 27 year old patient has an aneurysm of the aortic arch. This may compress which of the following structures?
a) right vagus nerve
b) left phrenic nerve
c) right sympathetic trunk
d) left recurrent laryngeal nerve
e) left greater splanchnic nerve
d) left recurrent laryngeal nerve
Where is the left recurrent laryngeal nerve in relation to the ligamentum arteriosum?
The nerve loops under the aortic arch POSTERIOR to the ligamentum arteriosum.
What does the right recurrent laryngeal nerve recurve around?
a) Right subclavian a.
b) Right common carotid a.
c) Right internal jugular v.
d) Brachiocephalic trunk
a) right subclavian artery
Which structure lies just posterior to the left atrium?
a) Aorta
b) Azygous v.
c) Esophagus
d) Sympathetic Trunk
e) Trachea
c) esophagus (remember transesophogeal cardiography)
At what spinal levels do the following structures pass through the diaphragm?
Inferior vena cava
Esophagus
Aorta
IVC: T8
Esophagus: T10
Aorta: T12 (this is where its name changes from the thoracic aorta to the abdominal aorta)
Which vagus nerve passes anterior to the esophagus?
The left.
Remember LARP
Patient has difficulty swallowing (dysphagia). Compression and constriction at which vertebra level may be the cause?
a) C4
b) T8
c) T10
d) T12
c) T10 (at the esophogeal hiatus - the diaphragmatic constriction)
Which ganglionic nerve fibers are long? There are two answers.
a) Preganglionic Sympathetic
b) Postganglionic Sympathetic
c) Preganglionic Parasympathetic
d) Postganglionic Parasympathetic
b) postganglionic sympathetic
c) preganglionic parasympathetic
Cardiac plexus contain which nerve fibers? There might be more than one answer.
a) CN X
b) CN XI
c) Cardiopulmonary Splanchnic
d) Greater Splanchnic
e) Thoracic Splanchnic
a) CN X is the vagus nerve (parasympathetic)
c) Cardiopulmonary splanchnic (T1-T4 sympathetic)
Which of the following does NOT insert onto the linea alba?
a) External oblique
b) Internal oblique
c) Transverse abdominal
d) Rectus abdominis
e) Pyramidalis
d) Rectus abdominis (runs parallel to the linea alba and inserts on costal cartilages and the inferior xyphoid process)
Name four things that happen at the linea semilunaris.
- Lateral border of the rectus abdominis.
- Border of the aponeurosis of the anterior abdominal muscles.
- Medial border of Hasselbach’s triangle (inside the abdomen).
- Spigelian hernias happen here
Name all the layers (fascia and muscles) of the abdomen from superficial to deep.
Camper's fascia Scarpa's fascia External oblique Internal oblique Transversalis abdominis Transversalis fascia Extra-peritoneal CT Parietal peritoneum
Do the external intercostal muscles exist in the condral portion of the ribs?
Do the internal intercostal muscles continue posterior to the angles of the ribs?
No, no
Herpes zoster virus can cause painful blisters in a dermatomal pattern via infection of the cell bodies of…?
a) Dorsal root ganglia
b) Ventral horn
c) Dorsal primary rami
d) Ventral primary rami
a) dorsal root ganglia (sensory nerves)
Patient presents with severe shoulder pain. Tests rule out upper brachial plexus abnormality or damage to the axillary n. You suspect pain originating from the pleura space. Which nerve and which specific region of the pleura is the likely culprit?
Phrenic nerve (C3-C5)
Diaphragmatic and mediastinal parietal pleura (intercostal nerves innervate the costal pleura)
Patient’s chest x-ray reveals a “water-bottle” silhouette and presents with three pathognomonic symptoms.
1) What does this patient have?
2) What are the symptoms?
3) What is the Treatment?
Acute pericardial effusion with cardiac tamponade.
Beck’s triad:
- Muffled heart sounds
- Low BP
- Internal jugular vein distension
Tx is pericardiocentesis
A senior resident asks you to retrieve the cardiac muscle biopsy of a patient’s right atrium. At the lab, you grab the sample labeled:
a) Chordae tendinae
b) Pectinate
c) Septomarginal trabeculae
d) Sinus venarum
e) Trabeculae carnae
b) pectinate - muscle of the right atrium
the other things are:
Septomarginal trabeculae – moderator band
Sinus venarum – smooth tissue of atrium
Trabeculae carnae – cardiac m. of ventricle
A 25 year old woman sustained a chest injury with the steering wheel during a car crash. An X-ray revealed a fracture of the manubrium at the sternomanubrial joint. Which of the following ribs would also most likely be involved in such an injury?
a) First
b) Second
c) Third
d) Fourth
e) Fifth
b) second
A 37-year-old house painter fell from a ladder and fractured his left third rib and the structures with which it articulated. Which of the following structures might also be damaged?
A. Manubrium of the sternum
B. Spinous process of the third thoracic vertebra
C. Body of the second thoracic vertebra
D. Body of the fourth thoracic vertebra
E. Transverse process of the second thoracic vertebra
C. Body of the second thoracic vertebra