The authors, a team of professors with 45 years of experience in teaching surgical diseasesat the medical university, systematize and summarize a vast amount of information on the main sections of clinical surgery. They rely on the latest advances in Russian and foreign surgery and focus on the use of cutting-edge clinical and instrumental research techniques and operative treatment methods. A large number of photographs and radiographs focus the reader`s attention on essential features of the diseases under discussion.This textbook is written in accordance with the current official syllabus for the subject of Surgical Diseases for senior students of General Medicine departments.