Archives of Hand and Microsurgery (pISSN 2586-3290, eISSN 2586-3533) is the official journal of Korean Society for Surgery of the Hand, Korean Society for Microsurgery, and Korean Society for Surgery of the Peripheral Nerve. Abbreviated title is ‘Arch Hand Microsurg’. It was launched in 2017. It publishes Original Articles, Case Reports, Technical Notes, and Review Articles. Both clinical and basic research manuscripts are considered for publication. It is published four times per year on the first day of March, June, September, and December. Archives of Hand and Microsurgery is an Open Access Journal. All articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Archives of Hand and Microsurgery is indexed/ tracked/covered by KoreaMed, KoreaMed Synapse, KCI, and DOI/Crossref. Full text is freely available from: http://www.handmicro.org. This work was supported by the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies(KOFST) grant funded by the Korean government.