期刊介绍：

The Annals of Surgical Treatment and Research (Ann Surg Treat Res), the official publication of the Korean Surgical Society, is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal published monthly. The journal has been published to promote active com munication among not only members of the Korean Surgical Society but also surgeons world wide, to advance surgical know ledge and to present effective surgical treatment methods, with the over arching aim of improving quality of life on surgical phy siology, diag nosis, and treat ment. Any authors affiliated with an accredited biomedical institution may submit manu scripts related to surgery of original articles, review articles, case reports, technical advance, letters to the editor, and how I do it.

Ann Surg Treat Res was launched in 1959 with the Korean title, Taehan Oekwa Hakhoe Chapchi, in Korean. Although there was a Korean title change, the English title, Journal of the Korean Surgical Society, has remained the same and published in English from April of 2011. Ann Surg Treat Res is indexed/tracked/covered by KoreaMed, KoMCI, KoreaMed Synapse, Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, PubMed Central, Chemical Abstract Search, DOI/Crossref, and Google Scholar.

This journal was supported in part by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST) Grant funded by the Korean Government.