ISSN 0038-2361 printed version
ISSN 2078-5151 online version

ABOUT THE JOURNAL

• Basic Information
• Indexing Sources
• Sponsorship
• Copyright

The SAJS is a general surgical journal that carries research articles and letters, editorials, clinical practice and other surgical articles and personal opinion, South African health–related news, obituaries, general correspondence, and classified advertisements.

The journal was started in 1962 and its purpose was to cater for the needs of doctors in the surgical disciplines.

The journal is published quarterly, 1 volume comprising 4 issues per annum in April, June, September and December.

Its abbreviated title is S. Afr. j. surg. (Online), which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes, references and bibliographic strips.

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Financial support from the Association of Surgeons of South Africa

The South African Journal of Surgery (SAJS) reserves copyright of the material published.
Material submitted for publication in the SAJS is accepted provided it has not been published elsewhere. The SAJS does not hold itself responsible for statements made by the authors.

The work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International license (CC BY–NC 4.0).