A skeletally immature basketball player presents to your cli...

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A 28-year-old male presents to the emergency department for evaluation following a stabbing incident to the right medial brachium, in which he was attacked with a serrated knife. He was found to have a brachial artery transection by the trauma team and was immediately taken to the operating theatre by vascular surgery. Intra-operatively, the orthopedic surgery team is consulted after noting a transection of a nerve, which was later identified as the median nerve by your astute senior resident. Following intraoperative debridement of the nerve, a six-centimeter defect is noted. The decision is made to perform cable autografting utilizing the patient's sural nerve. Which of the following functions has the poorest prognosis in terms of recovery?

You use the trans-psoas approach to perform an interbody fusion at the L4/L5 level. While splitting the psoas, as part of your surgical exposure, you note the presence of a nerve slightly dorsal to the midpoint of the L4/L5 disc and carefully retract it. Prolonged or excessive retraction of this nerve can be expected to manifest with which physical examination finding?

A 55-year-old female with lupus on chronic suppressive prednisone of 5mg per day presents with 2 months of worsening knee pain. She denies any inciting injuries, falls, or prior knee pain. On exam, she has a moderately sized effusion with pain isolated to the medial side of the knee. An MRI obtained by her rheumatologist is shown in Figure A. Given these findings and the likely causative pathophysiology, which of the following additional injuries shown in Figures B-F is she most likely to have concurrently?

Which of the following may be successfully treated with cl...

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A 67-year-old female presents t...

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A 20-year-old competitive weightlifter presents with complai...

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A 62-year-old female presents to your office with complaints of recurrent neck pain and numbness and tingling in her thumb and index finger. She reports previously having undergone anterior cervical discectomy and fusion at C4-5 five years ago with another surgeon who has since retired. An MRI demonstrates a large central disc herniation localized at C5-6 and left> right-sided foraminal narrowing at the same level. CT scan demonstrates healing of prior fusion. On exam, she has a well-healed incision over the right side of her neck. She has weakness in the C6 distribution and brachioradialis hyperreflexia. She reports smoking a half-pack of cigarettes per day. She has failed conservative measures for this and would like to undergo surgical intervention. What is the most appropriate surgical plan at this point?

Percutaneous placement of a lateral proximal tibial locking plate that extends down to the distal third of the leg is associated with postoperative decreased sensation of which of the following distributions?