Posted: July 24th, 2017

A 16-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department after attempting suicide by cutting her wrist. The deepest part of the wound is between the tendons of the flexor carpi radialis and the flexor digitorum superficialis. This patient is most likely to have a deficit of which of the following?

A 16-year-old girl is brought to the emergency
department after attempting suicide by cutting
her wrist. The deepest part of the wound is
between the tendons of the flexor carpi radialis
and the flexor digitorum superficialis. This
patient is most likely to have a deficit of which
of the following?
(A) Adduction and abduction of the fingers
(B) Extension of the index finger
(C) Flexion of the ring and small fingers
(D) Sensation over the base of the small
finger
(E) Opposition of the thumb and other
fingers