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After a major abdominal operation, a patient was given a course of antibiotics by intramuscular injection. The nurse was instructed to give the injections into the right buttock. Later, when the patient left the hospital, he developed several symptoms and signs that suggested that the injections into the gluteus maximus muscle had been given over the course of the sciatic nerve and had caused a lesion of the common peroneal nerve.
-The symptoms and signs displayed by this patient included the following except which?


A) He experienced numbness and tingling sensations down the anterior and lateral sides of the right leg and the dorsum of the foot.
B) His right foot tended to catch on steps and on the edges of the carpet.
C) On testing, he had impaired skin sensation on the lateral side of the right thigh.
D) The patient tended to hold the foot plantar flexed and slightly inverted.
E) Dorsiflexion of the right ankle joint was weaker than the same movement of the left ankle.
F) The everter muscles of the right midtarsal joints were weaker than those of the opposite side.

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