KROK 1 2019 – Question 87 · KROK (Medicine) · Human Anatomy
A patient with severe poisoning was brought into the intensive care unit. In the course of complex treatment the subclavian vein needs to be catheterized for medicine administration. This vein is located in the following topographic structure:
- A. Spatium antescalenum
- B. Spatium interaponeuroticum suprasternale
- C. Spatium retrosternocleidomastoideus
- D. Trigonum omotrapezoideum
- E. Spatium interscalenum
Hint
Recall that the subclavian vein and the subclavian artery take different paths through the muscular gap in the lower neck, and decide which cervical space each one occupies.
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