KROK 1 2008 – Question 46 · KROK (Medicine) · Human Anatomy
A 35 year old man with a trauma of his left hand was admitted to the traumatology department. Objectively: cut wound of palmar surface of left hand; middle phalanxes of II–V fingers don’t bend. What muscles are damaged?
- A. Profound finger flexor
- B. Superficial finger flexor
- C. Lumbrical muscles
- D. Dorsal interosseous muscles
- E. Palmar interosseous muscles
Hint
Work out which finger joint can no longer bend (between which phalanges), then ask which of the listed muscles acts on exactly that joint.
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