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Case study question about thorax?
A 48-year-old woman undergoes a complete mastectomy, including removing several axillary lymph nodes. The lymph nodes are all negative for evidence of metastasis.
However, the patient is found to have winging of scapula when her flexed arm is passed against a fixed object. This indicates injury to which one of the following nerves?
(I guess the answer should be the long thoracic nerve, but I'm not sure)
2 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Yes, I concur with the first author that this is a classic lesion and context with the long thoracic n. is severed at breast surgery, indeed.
Source(s): Clinically Oriented Anatomy. Moore. - Yahoo UserLv 71 decade ago
The long thoracic nerve is correct.
I've had a brachial plexus neuritis caused by an infection. The accessory nerve was affected as well, so my right leaf of my diaphragm is partially paralysed as well.
