A heavyset middle-aged insurance salesman who doesn't exercise often accepts his friend's invitation to a pickup basketball game.When attempting a jump shot, he falls to the ground in pain, grasping at the calf of his leg.There is an enormous bulge in his leg immediately below the knee, and he is unable to plantar flex that foot.Most likely he has injured his and the bulge is .
A)quadriceps tendon; his rectus femoris
B)calcaneal tendon; his triceps surae
C)patellar ligament; his fibularis longus
D)tibia; a previously undetected bone tumor
E)hamstrings; a large hematoma (blood clot)

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The symptoms described are consistent with a rupture of the calcaneal (Achilles) tendon, which connects the triceps surae (gastrocnemius and soleus muscles) to the heel bone. The bulge is likely the retracted muscle.

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