Monografiya posvyashchena tuberkuleznomu spondilitu - odnoy iz tyazheleyshikh form tuberkuleznoy infektsii. Avtory obobshchili opyt sobstvennykh mnogoletnikh nablyudeniy i dannye literatury, kasayushchiesya kliniko-epidemiologicheskikh, rentgenologicheskikh i psikhologicheskikh osobennostey tuberkuleznogo spondilita. Izuchena dinamika zabolevaemosti, osobennosti rentgenologicheskikh dannykh i oslozhneniy tuberkuleznogo spondilita v Zapadnoy Sibiri na primere krupnogo promyshlennogo goroda v razlichnye sotsial"no-ekonomicheskie i epidemicheskie periody. Issledovana svyaz" osobennostey protsessa konsolidatsii povrezhdennykh pozvonkov s sotsial"nymi, psikhologicheskimi i konstitutsional"nymi faktorami. Spetsial"nyy razdel posvyashchen analizu tuberkuleza vnelegochnykh lokalizatsiy i sushchestvuyushchim problemam ego ucheta. Udeleno vnimanie voprosam prognozirovaniya techeniya i iskhodov tuberkuleznogo spondilita. Rabota orientirovana na zaprosy ftiziatrov, ortopedov, nevrologov, rentgenologov i klinicheskikh psikhologov. Problema predstavlyaet interes dlya vrachey obshchey praktiki, malo znakomykh s sovremennymi klinicheskimi proyavleniyami vnelegochnogo tuberkuleza.