The dermatomes

By Alex Yartsev - Jul 01, 2015
Last updated Thu, 09/24/2015 - 04:14
 Topic: Neurology and Neurosurgery

This issue has come up in  Question 21.1 from the first paper of 2014. The candidates were invited to label a diagram of a dermatome-mapped homunculus. In order to supply the candidates with a readily available visual reference for this question, I have reproduced two free Wikipedia images in this revision article.

anterior dermatomes posterior dermatomes

References

For a more detailed look, one can see the textbook "Neurosurgical Classics".

Foerster, O. "The dermatomes in man." Neurosurgical Classics (1992): 129. Best viewed in this Googlebook.

Additionally, here is a link to the Wikipedia page I robbed.

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