The volume II of the basic university textbook is dedicated to the most important issues of pathological and operative obstetrics. The textbook information is organized in such way to combine classical concepts of main obstetric complications (etiology, pathogenesis, clinical symptoms, specifics of diagnostics and differential diagnostics) with up to date clinical recommendations, protocols and standards accepted and approved by the Russian Federation Ministry of Health and the Russian Obstetrics and Gynecology Society, providing a practical direction of doctor?s education, including general practitioners.

For students of the institutions of higher medical education, residents, postgraduate students, attendees of retraining courses, teachers, as well as general practitioners and obstetricians.