<div><em><strong>(30 min/30 Qs) Anatomy Neck Exam (Module 1)</strong></em></div>

Create an educational illustration of the anatomy of the neck highlighting key muscles, nerves, and the thyroid gland, with labels and an emphasis on clarity and detail.

Anatomy Neck Exam: Test Your Knowledge!

Welcome to the Anatomy Neck Exam! This quiz consists of 31 carefully crafted questions designed for anatomy enthusiasts, medical students, and professionals. Challenge your understanding of the neck's anatomy and related structures, and see how well you can identify key nerves, muscles, and functions.

Topics covered include:

Thyroid surgery implications
Neck nerve injuries
Voice and swallowing difficulties
Cervical plexus anatomy
Muscle functions in neck movement

31 Questions8 MinutesCreated by AnalyzingBone9

A 38-year-old man has had thyroid surgery to remove his papillary carcinoma. The external laryngeal nerve that accompanies the superior thyroid artery is damaged during the surgery. This injury could result in a severe impairment of function of which of the following?

A 27-year-old woman with a goiter comes to the hospital for surgical treatment. The surgeon must ligate the superior laryngeal artery before surgically resecting the goiter, so care must be taken to avoid injury to which of the following nerves?

A 17-year-old boy receives an injury to the phrenic nerve by a knife wound in the neck. The damaged nerve passes by which of the following structures in the neck?

Anterior to the subclavian vein

Posterior to the subclavian artery

Medial to the common carotid artery

Superficial to the anterior scalene muscle

Deep to the brachial plexus

A 26-year-old singer visits her Physician Assistant and complains of changes in her voice. A laryngoscopic examination demon strates a lesion of the superior laryngeal nerve, causing weakness of which of the following muscles?

A young singer at the local music theater visits her physician and complains of vocal difficulties. On examination, she is unable to abduct the vocal cords during quiet breathing. Which of the following muscles is most likely paralyzed?

71-year-old woman often visits an emergency department with swallowing difficulties and subsequent choking while eating food. Which of the following pairs of muscles is most instrumental in preventing food from entering the larynx and trachea during swallowing?

Sternohyoid and sternothyroid muscles

Oblique arytenoid and aryepiglottic muscles

Inferior pharyngeal constrictor and thy rohyoid muscles

Levator veli palatini and tensor veli pal atini muscles

Musculus uvulae and geniohyoid muscles

A 43-year-old man has new onset of difficulty with speaking. Examination by the ENT resident reveals problems in elevating the hyoid bone and fl oor of the mouth, sec ondary to paralysis of the posterior belly of the digastric muscle. Which of the following nerves is most likely involved?

A 37-year-old man feels a little discom fort when moving his tongue, pharynx, and larynx. Physical examination indicates that the muscles attached to the styloid process are paralyzed. Which of the following groups of cranial nerves are damaged?

Facial, glossopharyngeal, and hypoglossal nerves

Hypoglossal, vagus, and facial nerves

Glossopharyngeal, trigeminal, and vagus nerves

Vagus, spinal accessory, and hypoglossal nerves

Facial, glossopharyngeal, and vagus nerves

A 32-year-old woman has hoarseness in her voice, and her uvula is deviated to the left on phonation. Which of the following nerves is damaged?

A high school basketball player experiences a sudden difficulty in breathing and is brought to an emergency department. When a low tracheotomy is performed below the isthmus of the thyroid, which of the follow ing vessels may be encountered?

A 59-year-old man complains of numbness in the anterior cervical triangle. Therefore, damage has occurred to which of the following nerves?

A 76-year-old man with swallowing difficulties undergoes imaging for a possible mass. The CT scan image at the level of the cricothyroid ligament in his neck should show which of the following structures?

During surgery for a malignant parotid tumor in a 69-year-old woman, the main trunk of the facial nerve is lacerated. Which of the following muscles is paralyzed?

An angiogram of a 45-year-old man shows an occlusion of the costocervical trunk. This obstruction could produce a marked decrease in the blood flow in which of the following arteries?

A 64-year-old woman is unable to open her mouth or jaw because of tetanus resulting from a penetrating wound from a rusty nail. Which of the following muscles would most likely be paralyzed?

A 59-year-old stroke patient is unable to swallow because of a nerve injury. Which of the following nerves is unaffected?

Which one of the following branches from the cervical plexus is mixed (motor and sensory)?

A PA is performing a minor surgery on the lateral part of the neck of a 38 year old patient. He will find out that the roots of cervical plexus pass anterior to which muscle?

While dissecting a cadaver in the lab, the PA student will find out that the posterior triangle is divided into two triangles by the which muscle?

Moving the head so that the face looks upwards and to the left is a movement produced by the:

While performing a surgery on a 20 year old paralyzed patient, the surgeon finds significant amount of pus in Superior Mediastnum. Which space of the neck, did the pus originate in?

Which one of the following ligaments is a thickened part of investing layer of the deep cervical fascia

After getting knocked out of his gaming league, a 22 year old boy shows frustration which anatomically is described by depressing the mandible and lower lip and tensing the skin of the anterior neck. Which nerve helps him show that emotion?

The inferior root of ansa cervicalis spirals around the:

A Physician Assistant palpates the thyroid gland of a 22 year old female who comes in with neck pain. The thyroid gland moves with swallowing because it is tight by the which layer of deep cervical fascia:

A 55 year old man with chronic Rheumatoid Arthritis shows significant erosion of Atlas on an x-ray of the neck, The Atlas is atypical cervical vertebra because

Lack of body or spinous process

Presence of longest spine

Presence of the odontoid process

Absence of foramen transversarium.

Presence of lateral mass on each side

What is the axis of the Atlantoaxial Joints during their movement?

A newborn with her neck tilted towards one side and shortening of a specific muscle. This muscle is completely covered by

A 35 year old patient keeps getting foriegn particles in his larynx for the past two days which makes him cough abruptly and violently. Which nerve might have been damaged in this patient?

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