04-07-2011, 07:46 PM
A 19-year-old construction worker sustains a superficial laceration of the anterior wrist just proximal to the thenar and hypothenar eminences. Sensation is intact. Which of these tendons has most likely been severed?
A. Extensor carpi ulnaris
B. Flexor digitorum profundus
C. Flexor digitorum superficialis
D. Flexor pollicis longus
E. Palmaris longus
A. Extensor carpi ulnaris
B. Flexor digitorum profundus
C. Flexor digitorum superficialis
D. Flexor pollicis longus
E. Palmaris longus