Upper arm

Question 1

The axillary artery supplies blood to the brachial artery and what branches are served from there down the arm?

Answer 1

• profunda brachii (deep brachial artery) and branches into radial and middle collateral
• superior ulnar and inferior ulnar collateral (wrap under the medial epicondyle to join ulnar artery in the

Question 2

The brachial artery in anterior to what bony structure?

Answer 2

The trochlea

Question 3

The radial collateral artery is located where?

Answer 3

-lateral aspect of the distal humerus

Question 4

The radial recurrent artery branches at what point?

Answer 4

-branches at the head of the raidus and flows to meet the radial collateral artery.

Question 5

What muscles are involved with flexion of the arm?

Answer 5

• long and short head of the biceps brachii
• brachialis
• coracobrachialis

Question 6

What nerve is involved with flexion of the musculature of the arm?

Answer 6

-musculocutaneous nerve (C5,6,7)

Question 7

What muscles are involved with extension located on the posterior compartment?

Answer 7

• triceps brachii

- anconeus

Question 8

The posterior compartment muscles are innervated byt what nerve?

Answer 8

-radial nerve

Question 9

How many boundaries are help form the cubital fossa?

Answer 9

• the lateral
• medial
• superior
• roof
• floor

Question 10

What forms the lateral aspect of the cubital fossa border?

Answer 10

-brachioradialis

Question 11

What forms the medial aspect of the cubital fossa border?

Answer 11

-pronator teres

Question 12

What forms the superior aspect of the cubital fossa border?

Answer 12

-imaginary line between the medial and lateral epicondyles

Question 13

What forms the roof aspect of the cubital fossa border?

Answer 13

• skin and superficial and deep fascia

- bicipital aponeurosis

Question 14

What are important components that run through the cubital fossa?

Answer 14

• median nerve
• brachial artery branches into radial and ulnar
• brachial vein
• bicep tendon and bicipital aponeurosis
• radial nerve (deep and superficial)

Question 15

Where does the median cubital vein lie in the cubital fossa?

Answer 15

-superior to the bicipital aponeurosis

Question 16

Where is the median nerve in relation to the cubital fossa?

Answer 16

-it is located medial to the brachial artery

Question 17

Where is the msuculocutaneous nerve?

Answer 17

-cubital fossa between the bicep brachii and brachialis muscles