A person is stabbed on posterolateral neck and has suffered partially severing of C6 ventral ramus. What finding is likely to be found related to this injury

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Your musculoskeletal system includes your bones, cartilage, ligaments, tendons and connective tissues. Your skeleton provides a framework for your muscles and other soft tissues. Together, they support your body's weight, maintain your posture and help you move.

1. A person is stabbed on posterolateral neck and has suffered partially severing of C6 ventral ramus. What finding is likely to be found related to this injury

C5-C7 nerve roots = long thoracic nerve which = serratus anterior. So they get inability to protract scapula = winged scapula.
1. Depolarizing skeletal agen = opens nicotinic cholinergic receptors causes K + efflux. 2. tall peaked T waves from hyperkalemia
'1. Borrelia burgdorferi; spirochete transmitted by Ixodes scapularis deer tick. 2. Erythema migrans = enlarging ''target-shaped'' rash. 3. Neurological symptoms: Cranial nerve palsies, Cardiac symptoms. 4. Arthritis: Months to years late. Thought to be type 3 HS. 5. Doxycyclcine'
1. In ability to abduct/adduct due to interossei muscles and inability to use lumbricals = clawing. This is due to ulnar nerve dmage. Sepcifiaclly Deep palmar branch of the ulnar nerve.

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