A dermatome is an area of skin that gets its sensation from a specific spinal nerve root. Spinal nerves exist in 31 pairs, one on each side of the spine. These nerves send signals for things like ...

This is because each spinal nerve root—one on each side of the body—services a specific area of skin called a dermatome. When a shingles outbreak occurs, only that dermatome on that side of ...

manifesting as a unilateral vesicular skin eruption involving one to three dermatomes. Skin vesicles may be painful or pruritic, especially in adults. Zoster generally is a milder disease in ...

evidence of maternal VI during pregnancy, 2. presence of congenital skin dermatome lesions characteristic of VI and 3. immunologic proof of in-utero VI of the infants. Eighteen children who ...