Hip Eponymous
This test, named after a French physician, is used to evaluate the integrity of the ulnar nerve by assessing the ability to grasp paper between the thumb and index finger.
What is Froment's sign?
This facial nerve branch is responsible for brow elevation.
What is the temporal branch?
The hook of this carpal bone serves as a key landmark for the ulnar artery and nerve in the wrist.
What is the hamate?
This dermatological disorder rapidly grows following biopsy or surgical debridement.
What is Pyoderma Gangrenosum?
This French surgeon was credited with the discovery of the ulnar canal at the wrist.
Who is Jean Casimir Félix Guyon?
This is a test in which you bend your thumb across the palm of your hand and bend your fingers down over your thumb.
What is Finklestein test?
This sign refers to the small finger abduction due to weakness or paralysis of the adducting palmar interosseous muscle and unopposed action of the radial innervated extensor muscles (EDC/EDM).
What is Wartenberg's sign?
These are specialized mesotendinous structures that attach to the flexor tendons of the hand providing vascular supply and mechanical support.
What are the vincula?
This is sign of latent tetany that is positive in hypocalcemia which results in carpopedal spasm of the hand and wrist after an individual wears a blood pressure cuff inflated over their systolic blood pressure for 2 to 3 minutes.
What is Trousseau's sign?
This Kiwi is known as the father of modern plastic surgery.
This procedure involves distal radioulnar joint arthrodesis while forearm pronation and supination are maintained or even improved by creating a pseudoarthrosis of the ulna just proximal to the arthrodesis.
What is the Sauvé-Kapandji Procedure?
In gracilis muscle free flap transfers for facial reanimation, this nerve is typically used to provide motor innervation.
What is the obturator nerve?
This space contains the axillary nerve and the posterior humeral circumflex artery.
Name the most common pathogen in Type III necrotizing fasciitis.
What is Vibrio vulnificus?
In approximately 600 BC, this Indian physician pioneered reconstructive techniques of the nose.
Who is Sushruta Samhita?
This is is a technique in which the ulnar nerve is transferred to the biceps brachii muscle to restore elbow flexion.
What is the Oberlin nerve transfer?
This neurodevelopmental congenital syndrome is characterized by strabismus, lagopthalmos, limb and pectoral anomalies and predominantly affects the abducens (CN VI) and facial (CN VII) nerves.
What is Möbius Syndrome?
The mandibular nerve exits the cranium through this foramen.
What is the foramen ovale?
Bilateral carpal tunnel and/or multiple trigger digits are associated with increased incidence of this rare disorder that can affect the heart, lungs, and kidneys.
What is Amyloidosis?
What is a kidney transplant?
The main disadvantage of this transfer is powering MCPJ extension with a finger flexor is not synergistic, and motor re-education after the transfer is difficult.
What is the Boyes transfer?
This is a communication between common digital nerves that emerge from the median nerve and the ulnar nerve on the surface of the palm. It is pure sensory.
What is the Berrettini Anastomosis?
This is an anatomical space through which the roots of the brachial plexus and the subclavian artery pass. It is prone to compression in thoracic outlet syndrome.
What is the interscalene space?
This is a rare complication after a large craniectomy, with a sunken skin above the bone defect with neurological symptoms such as severe headache, mental changes, focal deficits, or seizures.
Syndrome of Trephined
This club, established in 1941, was a social club and mutual support network for British and allied aircrew injured during World War II. Its membership was made up of patients of Archibald McIndoe who had undergone experimental reconstructive plastic surgery, including facial reconstruction, generally after receiving burns injuries in aircraft.
What is the Guinea Pig Club?