Frontiers of The Spinal Surgery

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SPINE AND SPINAL CORD HEALTH AND DISEASE RELATED BOOKS PUBLISHED IN TURKISH

  • Sait NADERI

Received Date: 01.12.2014 Accepted Date: 21.01.2015 J Turk Spinal Surg 2015;26(2):171-178

Spine health is an important medicine field involving many disciplines. As in other disciplines, many manuscripts and books have been published in this field. The aim of this study is to review books written in this field in Turkish language. This study found out 77 books published since 1976. 24 of books were published for general readers, and 53 books were published for spine health professionals. 62 of books were original and 15 of the books were found to be translated version of books written in another language. The topic of books have been found to be different, the most common topics include low back and back pain in 29 books, lumbar disc herniation and spine trauma in 7 cases. It is concluded that this bibliography reveled the list of these books, and enlightened the future studies.

Keywords: Bibliography, medical book, health of spine, spinal surgery