In anticipation for a medical school swimming party, a 60-year-old male professor squeezes into last year's bikini bathing suit despite gaining 25 lb over the winter. Following a day of "impressing" his students and colleagues, he notices numbness, tingling, and a burning sensation in the lateral aspect of his left upper thigh. His symptoms are exacerbated by applying pressure near the left anterior superior iliac spine. What nerve is most likely affected?
(A) Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve
(B) Femoral branch of genitofemoral nerve
(C) Anterior cutaneous branches of femoral nerve
(D) Ilioinguinalnerve
(E) Iliohypogastric nerve
Answer: (A) Lateral femoral cutaneous nerve
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