V monografii rassmotreny etiologiya, patogenez, klassifikatsiya, metody diagnostiki i lecheniya ostrogo epididimita, predstavlen sravnitel"nyy analiz blizhayshikh i otdalennykh rezul"tatov razlichnykh metodov lecheniya. Predlozhen algoritm khirurgicheskoy taktiki pri ostrom epididimite s uchetom primeneniya maloinvazivnykh metodov lecheniya. Predstavlen mirovoy opyt lecheniya dannoy patologii i sobstvennyy, sostavlyayushchiy 157 patsientov v vozraste ot pervogo mesyatsa do 17 let. Bol"shoe kolichestvo skhem, risunkov, algoritmov, fotografiy, tablits i klinicheskikh nablyudeniy oblegchaet vospriyatie materiala. Monografiya rekomendovana detskim urologam, urologam, detskim khirurgam, a tak zhe dlya obucheniya klinicheskikh ordinatorov, internov i studentov starshikh kursov meditsinskikh vuzov