Uchebnik soderzhit neobkhodimyy material po etiologii, patogenezu, klinike, lecheniyu i profilaktike rasprostranennykh sotsial"no-znachimykh dermatozov. Sistematizirovany dannye otechestvennoy, rossiyskoy i zarubezhnoy dermatologii s uchetom dostizheniy sovremennoy immunologii, biokhimii, genetiki, patofiziologii i drugikh fundamental"nykh distsiplin. Udeleno osoboe vnimanie differentsial"noy diagnostike kozhnykh bolezney, predstavlennoy v vide algoritma priznakov. Uchebnik prednaznachen dlya studentov meditsinskikh institutov, internov, klinicheskikh ordinatorov, vrachey-dermatovenerologov, semeynoy meditsiny i smezhnykh distsiplin.