Main description:

This atlas is the result of research involving over 3,000 patients consecutively recruited since 2004. Clinical practice gives the opportunity to observe many more A axonal lesions (axonotmesis) than transections (neurotmesis), consequently the mapped hypo aesthetic territories are partial. Therefore, the authors define for each cutaneous nerve branch, the autonomous territory and the boundary markers of the largest territory of cutaneous origin. Each anatomical chart of a cutaneous branch is the superposition of tens, even hundreds of observations seen in clinical practice - based on 3,133 maps of observed cutaneous hypoaesthetic territories. The data collected has also been cross-referenced with that published in nearly 100 other anatomy books.

This 1st English edition - based on the 3rd French edition published by Sauramps Medical - illustrates the usefulness of anatomical knowledge for clinical practice. More precisely, it seeks to demonstrate how these topographic elements can offer valuable support, both for the clinical anamnesis, and for the clinical examination of neuropathic pain patients.

This atlas is at the crossroads between the medical and rehabilitation disciplines. Accordingly, it addresses the needs of medical doctors, from GPs to specialists, and of pain therapists, and offers a valuable asset for all health professionals who are dedicated to the management of pain and associated problems.

Contents:

Foreword: Prof. B. Cramer

Foreword: Prof. B. Moxham

Glossary

Acknowledgements

Part I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction

Patients and methods

Tutorial

Part II. Domains

Chapter 2. Trigeminal domain

Chapter 3. Occipital domain

Chapter 4. Cervical domain

Chapter 5. Brachial domain

Chapter 6. Posterior-intercostal domain

Chapter 7. Lumbo-abdominal domain

Chapter 8. Lumbo-femoral domain

Chapter 9. Femoral domain

Chapter 10. Sciatic domain

Chapter 11. Sacral domain

Part III.

Chapter 12. Conclusion

References

Part IV

Index of anatomical plates

Index of tables

Appendix I: Aesthesiography

Appendix II: Dermatomes

Appendix III: Collateral nerves of the fingers