Upper Limb Flashcards
How many synovial tunnels in the extensor retinaculum that transmit extender tendons?
6
Attachments of the extensor retinaculum?
The pisiform and triquetral medially
The end of the radius laterally
Structures superficial to the extensor retinaculum?
Basilic vein
Dorsal cutaneous branch of the ulnar nerve
Cephalic vein
Superficial branch of the radial nerve
Structures deep to extensor retinaculum?
Extensor carpi ulnaris tendon
Extensor digiti minimi tendon
Extensor digitorum and extensor indicis tendon
Extensor pollicis longus tendon
Extensor carpi radialis longus tendon
Extensor carpi radialis brevis tendon
Abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis tendons
Effects of ulnar nerve damage at the wrist?
Wasting and paralysis of intrinsic hand muscles (claw hand)
Wasting and paralysis of hypothenar muscles
Loss of sensation medial 1 and half fingers
Effects of ulnar nerve damage at the elbow?
Radial deviation of the wrist
Clawing less in 4th and 5th digits
What is innervated by the anterior interosseous nerve?
Flexor pollicis longus
Pronator quadratus
The radial half of flexor digitorum profundus (the lateral two out of the four tendons).
These muscles are in the deep level of the anterior compartment of the forearm.
NO SENSORY
How many bones of the hand?
8 Carpal bones
5 Metacarpals
14 phalanges
Which muscles make up the thenar eminence?
Abductor pollicis brevis
Opponens pollicis
Flexor pollicis brevis
Which muscles make up the hypothenar eminence?
Opponens digiti minimi
Flexor digiti minimi brevis
Abductor digiti minimi
What are the intrinsic muscles of the hand?
8 Interossei - Supplied by ulnar nerve
4 palmar-adduct fingers
4 dorsal- abduct fingers
Lumbricals
Flex MCPJ and extend the IPJ.
Origin deep flexor tendon and insertion dorsal extensor hood mechanism.
Innervation: 1st and 2nd- median nerve, 3rd and 4th- deep branch of the ulnar nerve.
What are the boundaries of the axilla?
Floor: subscapularis/teres major and latissimus dorsi
Anterior: Lateral border of Pectoralis major/pec minor
Lateral: Humeral head
Medial:Chest wall and Serratus anterior
Apex: lateral border of the first rib, superior border of scapula, and the posterior border of the clavicle.
Contents of the axilla?
- Long thoracic nerve (of Bell)
- Thoracodorsal nerve and thoracodorsal trunk
- Intercostobrachial nerves
- Axillary vein
- Lymph nodes
What is the anterior interosseous nerve a branch of?
median nerve
What does the anterior interosseous nerve innervate?
The anterior interosseous nerve classically innervates 2.5 muscles:
Flexor pollicis longus
Pronator quadratus
The radial half of flexor digitorum profundus (the lateral two out of the four tendons).
Deep anterior forearm
What is tunica vaginalis derived from?
abdominal peritoneum
What structures cover the spermatic cord?
Internal spermatic fascia
Cremasteric fascia
External spermatic fascia
What are the contents of the spermatic cord?
vas deferens
testicular artery
artery of vas deferens
cremasteric artery
panpiniform plexus
sympathetic nerve fibres
genital branch of the genitofemoral nerve
lymphatic vessels
Which muscles are used in shoulder flexion?
Anterior part of deltoid
Pectoralis major
Biceps
Coracobrachialis
Which muscles are used in shoulder extension?
posterior deltoid
teres major
latissimus dorsi
Which muscles are used in shoulder adduction?
Pectoralis major
Latissimus dorsi
Teres major
Coracobrachialis
which muscles are used in shoulder abduction?
Mid deltoid
Supraspinatus
which muscles are used in shoulder medial rotation?
Subscapularis
Anterior deltoid
Teres major
Latissimus dorsi
which muscles are used in shoulder arm lateral rotation?
Posterior deltoid
Infraspinatus
Teres minor
What is the course of the median nerve relative to the brachial artery in the upper arm?
Relations of median nerve to the brachial artery:
Lateral -> Anterior -> Medial
What out of the contents of the axilla is most likely to be divided in axillary surgery?
intercostobrachial nerves (cutaneous sensations to axillary skin)
Muscles supplied by the radial nerve?
BEST
Brachioradialis
Extensors
Supinator
Triceps
How many extensor compartments are there?
6
What is the path of the radial artery in the wrist?
The radial artery passes between the lateral collateral ligament of the wrist joint and the tendons of the abductor pollicis longus and extensor pollicis brevis.
what are the intrinsic muscles of the hand?
Mnemonic for intrinsic hand muscles
‘A OF A OF A’
A bductor pollicis brevis
O pponens pollicis
F lexor pollicis brevis
A dductor pollicis (thenar muscles)
O pponens digiti minimi
F lexor digiti minimi brevis
A bductor digiti minimi (hypothenar muscles
what are the branches of the axillary artery in order?
Mnemonic for axillary artery branches
Screw The Lawyer Save A patient
Superior thoracic artery
Thoracoacromial artery
Lateral thoracic artery
Subscapular artery
Anterior humeral circumflex artery
Posterior humeral circumflex artery
Where does the axillary artery go from and to?
outer border of the first rib to the lower border of teres major, where it becomes the brachial artery
what are the three zones of the axillary artery?
related to pec minor
1. lies above pectoralis minor
2. behind the muscle
3. inferior to it.
anterior wall of the carpal tunnel?
flexor retinaculum
posterior wall of carpal tunnel?
carpal arch formed by 6 carpal bones
contents of carpal tunnel?
Contents – 9 tendons, 1 nerve
4 FDS tendons
4 FDP tendons
Flexor pollicis longus tendon
Median nerve
what passes superiorly to the flexor retinaculum?
Palmaris longus, ulnar nerve and ulnar artery pass superficially to flexor retinaculum
Ulnar nerve is medial to ulnar artery
They both pass through Guyon’s canal*
What ligament links the metacarpals?
deep transverse metacarpal ligaments
what is pisiform suspended in?
sesamoid bone existing in tendon of FCU
what type of joint is radiocarpal joint?
Synovial joint between the distal end of radius, the scaphoid and lunate
which fibrous ligaments assisting radiocarpal joint?
Palmar and dorsal radio-carpal ligaments
Ulnar and Radial collateral ligaments (of the wrist)
List the joints of the hand
Distal radio-ulnar joint
Wrist joint – radiocarpal joint
Intercarpal joint
Between individual carpal bones
Between proximal and distal row bones – midcarpal joint
Carpo-metacarpal joints
Intermetacarpal joints
Metacarpophalangeal joints
Proximal and distal interphalangeal joints
what sort of joint is the first metacarpal joint?
The joint between the metacarpal I and the trapezium
It is a saddle joint which permits all movements of the thumb
Often becomes osteoarthritic
(most mobile)
What ligaments are MCP joints reinforced by?
Palmar ligament
Medial and lateral MCP collateral ligaments
What ligaments reinforce the IP joints?
Reinforced by medial and lateral collaterals
what is the palmar aponeurosis continuous with?
Proximally continuous with the flexor retinaculum
Distally continuous with the fibrous digital sheaths - this fascia further condenses into annular and cruciate ligaments
What are osseous-fibrous tunnels?
The osseo-fibrous tunnels are present on the palmar aspect of the hand
They are tunnels which are formed by the fibrous digital sheaths and the underlying bone
Describe the path of a flexor tendon?
Pass into the hand under the flexor retinaculum
And enters a common synovial sheath…
Passes through an osseo-fibrous tunnel
Within a digital synovial sheath
The FDS splits around the FDP
The FDS attaches to the middle phalanx and FDP attaches to the distal phalanx
Where are extensor hoods found?
The extensor tendons will expand over the proximal phalanges to form complex extensor hoods
What attaches to extensor hoods?
The interosseous muscles attach to the extensor hoods
The distal attachment of the lumbricals is the extensor hood. This is why they cause MCP flexion and IP extension
Name the superficial muscles of the forearm from lateral to medial?
Pronator teres [median]
Flexor carpi radialis [median]
Palmaris longus [median]
Flexor carpi ulnaris [ulnar]
distal insertion of pronator teres?
radius
distal insertion of flexor carpi radialis?
metacarpals (II & III)
distal insertion of palmaris longus?
Palmar aponeurosis of the hand
intermediate muscles of the forearm?
flexor digitorum superficialis [median]
proximal and distal attachments of flexor digitorum superficial?
Proximal: Radial and ulnar heads
Partial attachment to the humerus
Distal:Middle phalanx
functions of FDS?
Flexion at the proximal interphalangeal, MCP and wrist joints
Deep muscles of anterior forearm?
Flexor digitorum profundus [median except for FDP to ring and little fingers (ulnar nerve)]
Flexor pollicis longus [median]
Pronator quadrats [median]
proximal and distal attachments of FDP?
Proximal: Ulna and interosseous membrane*
Distal: Anterior aspect of distal phalanges
Function of FDP?
Flexion of interphalangeal joints and wrist
Flexor pollicis longus attachments?
Proximal: Radius*
Distal: Distal phalanx of thumb*
Function of flexor pollicis longus?
Function: Flexes interphalangeal joints of thumb