MCQ – 89013

Question

A 24-year-old female received a small-caliber bullet wound to the popliteal fossa from a drive-by assailant. The patient was admitted to the emergency department, where the surgeons recognized that the bullet had severed the tibial nerve. Such an injury would most likely result in which of the following?

A. Inability to extend the leg at the knee

B.

Foot drop

C.

A dorsiflexed and everted foot

D.

A plantar flexed and inverted foot

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