Monografiya soderzhit sovremennye predstavleniya o klinicheskoy anatomii, eye razdelakh, metodicheskikh i organizatsionnykh osobennostyakh provedeniya kliniko-anatomicheskikh issledovaniy. Pokazany vozmozhnosti sozdaniya variantnoy prizhiznennoy anatomii, klinicheskie prilozheniya rezul'tatov issledovaniy dlya instrumental'noy diagnostiki, sovremennoy khirurgii i drugikh razdelov klinicheskoy meditsiny. V monografii obobshchen bol'shoy opyt avtora i vozglavlyaemogo im kollektiva v organizatsii i provedenii nauchnykh issledovaniy po klinicheskoy anatomii. Monografiya prednaznachena topografoanatomam, anatomam, shirokomu krugu klinitsistov, interesuyushchikhsya klinicheskoy anatomiey, razraba-tyvayushchikh i ispol'zuyushchikh svedeniya po klinicheskoy anatomii v svoey nauchnoy i prakticheskoy deyatel'nosti.