Contemporary Spine Surgery
Last updated ISSN 1527-4268
Contemporary Spine Surgery is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in medicine. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Contemporary Spine Surgery concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Spine and Intervertebral Disc Pathology
- Spinal Fractures and Fixation Techniques
- Cervical and Thoracic Myelopathy
- Medical Imaging and Analysis
- Scoliosis diagnosis and treatment
- Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation
- Pelvic and Acetabular Injuries
- Management of metastatic bone disease
- Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Spinal Hematomas and Complications
Key facts
| Publisher | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1527-4268, 2161-1181 |
| Subject area | Medicine |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Not recorded |
| Articles published | 626 |
| Publishing since | 2000 |
| Journal website | journals.lww.com/cssnewsletter/pages/default.aspx |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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