Upper Limb Wet Room Station 1

Question 1

What creates the anterior wall of the Axilla?

Answer 1

Pectorals Major an Minor Muscles

Question 2

What creates the posterior wall of the Axilla?

Answer 2

Teres Major

Question 3

What creates the medial wall of the Axilla?

Answer 3

The thoracic wall and the serratus anterior Muscles

Question 4

What creates the lateral wall of the Axilla?

Answer 4

Inter tubercular groove of the humerus

Question 5

The axillary a. is a continuation of ______.

Answer 5

The subclavian a.

Question 6

At which anatomical point does the axillary a. begin?

Answer 6

Lateral border of the 1st Rib

Question 7

What does the axillary artery become after transversing though the axilla?

Answer 7

The brachial a.

Question 8

At which anatomical point does the axillary a. change name?

Answer 8

At the lower margin of the Teres Major

Question 9

Which nerves form the brachial plexus

Answer 9

C5 to T1

Question 10

Which nerves form the upper trunk of the brachial plexus?

Answer 10

C5 and 6

Question 11

What is Erbs point?

Answer 11

A site at the upper trunk of the brachial plexus located 2–3 cm above the clavicle

Question 12

What does compression of Erbs point cause anatomically?

Answer 12

Waiters tip appearance

‘Upper Limb medially rotated with a flexed wrist

Question 13

What does C5 and 6 supply?

Answer 13

Biceps Brachiallis; Coracbrachialis, Brachioradiallis and the Deltoid

Question 14

Which Nerves create the lower trunk of the brachial plexus?

Answer 14

C8 and T1

Question 15

What is compression of C8 and T1 called?

Answer 15

Klumpke’s palsy

Question 16

Which muscles are affected in Klumpke’s palsy?

Answer 16

Intrinsic muscles of the hand and Ulnar Flexors of the wrists and fingers

Question 17

What are the chords of the brachial named in relation towards?

Answer 17

The axilla artery in the axilla

Question 18

Which nerves does the lateral chord of the BP supply? (3)

Answer 18

Lateral Pectoral, Lateral root of median nerve and Musculocutaneous nerves

Question 19

Which nerves does the medial chord of the BP supply? (5)

Answer 19

Medial Pectoral, 
Medial root of the median nerve, 
Ulnar nerve, 
Medial cutaneous nerve of the arm, 
medial cutaneous nerve of the forearm

Question 20

Which nerves does the posterior chord of the BP supply? (4)

Answer 20

Thoracodorsal nerve,
Axillary N
Radial N
Subscapular n (Upper and Lower)

Question 21

Where does the cephalic vein arise?

Answer 21

The lateral end of the dorsal venous arch

Question 22

Where does the basilic vein arise?

Answer 22

The medial end of the dorsal venous arch

Question 23

What is the fx of the median cubital vein?

Answer 23

Shunts blood from the cephalic vein and basilic vein