KROK 1 2020 – Question 147 · KROK (Medicine) · Human Anatomy
The doctor examines a patient with diabetes mellitus. He needs to check the pulsation of an artery that enters the foot between the tendons of extensor digitorum longus and extensor hallucis longus. What artery is it?
- A. A. fibularis
- B. A. plantaris medialis
- C. A. tibialis posterior
- D. A. dorsalis pedis
- E. A. plantaris lateralis
Hint
Follow the artery of the anterior leg compartment as it passes under the extensor retinaculum onto the top of the foot, and ask which named vessel continues it there.
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