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A patient is diagnosed with hypocalcemia.  What would you expect her phosphate levels to look like?

A 45 year old male, with a history of cocaine abuse and cigarette smoking, presents with extreme weakness in his bilateral lower extremities.  An angiogram demonstrates a thrombosis in a vessel supplying 2/3 of the spinal cord.  Which vessel(s) was / were blocked leading to the spinal cord ischemia?

A 23 year old male is shot in the back.  The entrance wound compromises the spinal accessory nerve.  Which of the following muscles may be paralyzed as a result of the gunshot?

A 3 year old male presents to the urgent care holding his left upper extremity close to his body.  His mother states she yanked his hand, as he tried to run across a busy parking lot.  Now the toddler is refusing to pronate his left forearm.  Where did the subluxation occur?

A 56 year old patient recently suffered an MI at the apex of the heart.  Where was the arterial occlusion?

A toddler chokes on a dime.  If the coin lodged in the most likely location for aspiration, where would it be visualized on a chest x-ray?

For most people, in which hemisphere is the general interpretive center for language and mathematical calculation found?

A 44 year old male, with a history of hypertriglyceridemia, presents to the emergency department with a complaint of severe abdominal pain.  He describes the pain as severe, and it radiates to the back.  He also admits to nausea and vomiting.  Exam reveals tenderness to palpation throughout the abdomen, but is severe at the epigastric region.  Labs demonstrate lymphocytosis and an elevated lipase.  What is the most likely diagnosis?

If the afferent arteriole vasodilates, what happens to the glomerular filtration rate?

From which spinal cord segments does the typically brachial plexus originate?