Following shotgun wound of the chest wall, a 39-year-old woman desires reconstruction without a foreign-body prosthesis. Old incisions prohibit use of her rectus abdominus muscles. Considering chest wall muscles for reconstruction, the following is/are true statement(s):
- The pectoralis major muscle is available and innervated by the medial and lateral pectoral nerves so named because it describes their relationship to the pectoralis minor
The serratus anterior muscle is available since its absence has no functional significance
There is no serratus posterior muscle
The latissimus dorsi muscle is available and supplied by the thoracodorsal artery
- The latissimus dorsi is innervated by the thoracodorsal nerve with fibers from C6, C7 and C8
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