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Chapter 12, Problem 6CT
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The part of the leg in which the patient experiences tingling or numbness.
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A skier after breaking his ankle was made to wear a plaster cast. The cast was placed too tight around the proximal portion of the leg that it started pressing the neck of the fibula.
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