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n. - A surgical instrument used to cut very thin slices of skin.

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  • Preceded by severe neuralgic pain, the eruption is vesicular on an erythematous base and is almost invariably unilateral, occupying the dermatome of a peripheral nerve.
  • For patients with PHN, we examined the contralateral dermatome.
  • Both belong to the territory of the common peroneal nerve (dermatome S1).
  • Six sites were investigated in this subject (front, hand, leg, foot) among which two belonged to the same dermatome on the lower limb (S1).
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