A dermatome is an area of skin supplied by a single spinal nerve. There are 31 pairs of spinal nerves, forming nerve roots that branch from your spinal cord, but only 30 dermatomes. Your spinal ...

In men who have become impotent following prostate cancer surgery, implantation of nerve grafts into the penis allows some men who were potent before surgery to recover erectile function ...

He performed all procedures using the Lichtenstein technique, but removed the ilioinguinal nerve and occasionally the iliohypogastric and genitofemoral nerves. Dr. Wright removed 84 nerves in the 100 ...