Lower Leg
Ankle
Fractures
Radiographs
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100
The muscle that is deep to the gastrocnemius, in the posterior compartment of the leg
What is the soleus?
100
The type of joint that the ankle is classified as
What is a synovial joint?
100
This metatarsal is the most vulnerable to stress fractures.
What is the 2nd metatarsal?
100
The yellow arrow points to this tarsal bone.
What is the navicular?
100
This double-domed sheet of skeletal muscle, located at the inferior-most aspect of the rib cage, alters the volume of the thoracic cavity and the lungs to produce inspiration and expiration.
What is the diaphragm?
200
This structure connects the tibia and the fibula
What is the interosseus membrane?
200
These three bones make up the ankle.
What are the tibia, fibula and talus?
200
The type of fracture where both lateral and medial malleoli have been fractured.
What is a bimalleolar fracture?
200
The yellow arrow is pointing to this structure.
What is the lateral malleolus?
200
The ulnar nerve and artery run through this structure.
What is the canal of Guyon?
300
All the extensors in the anterior compartment of the lower leg.
What are the tibialis anterior, extensor hallucis longus, extensor digitorum longus and fibularis tertius?
300
The ligament that is most likely to be injured in a lateral ankle sprain (inversion).
What is the anterior talofibular ligament?
300
A type of fracture where, in addition to one of the malleoli being fractured, the ligaments on the medial side of the ankle are injured.
What is a bimalleolar equivalent fracture?
300
The yellow arrow is pointing to this structure.
What is the posterior cruciate ligament?
300
An imaginary line at this vertebral level divides the mediastinum into superior and interior compartments.
What is T4?