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a patient who was in a knife fight suffered a 2 inch wound to his back. the knife entered posterior thorax along midsagittal plane and entered posterior aspect. what structure in posterior aspect would be injured

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The structure in posterior aspect which would been injured is the spinal cord.

Sagittal plane refers to the plane which divides the body into left and right while the mid-sagittal plane refers to the plane which divides the body into left and right at the center of the body.

  • Now, the knife has been stabbed from the posterior aspect into the posterior thorax. So, the structure along the mid-sagital plane in the posterior aspect of the body is the vertebral column.

  • Taking into consideration that the wound is 2 inches deep, the knife will enter the spinal canal of the vertebral column and this is where the spinal cord is.

In conclusion, the knife would have injured the spinal cord with reside in the vertebral column.

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