KROK 1 2007 – Question 114 · KROK (Medicine) · Human Anatomy
A patient’s knee joint doesn’t extend, there is no knee-jerk reflex, skin sensitivity of the anterior femoral surface is disturbed. What nerve structures are damaged?
- A. Obturator nerve
- B. Big fibular nerve
- C. Femoral nerve
- D. Inferior gluteal nerve
- E. Superior gluteal nerve
Hint
Link the three findings, loss of knee extension, absent patellar reflex and numbness over the front of the thigh, to the nerve of the anterior thigh compartment.
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