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 popliteal fossa, and he is unable to plantar flex that foot. Most likely he has injured his ________ and the bulge is ________.
A. hamstrings; a large hematoma (blood clot)
B. patellar ligament; his fibularis longus
C. tibia; a previously undetected bone tumor
D. calcaneal tendon; his triceps surae
E. quadriceps tendon; his rectus femoris
Answer: D
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