V monografii s sovremennykh pozitsiy izlozheny osnovnye svedeniya, kasayushchiesya patogeneza, kliniki, diagnostiki zabolevaniy biliarnoy sistemy (disfunktsiya zhelchnogo puzyrya, khronicheskie kholetsistity. Osveshchayutsya funktsional'nye, metabolicheskie i immunologicheskie izmeneniya u bol'nykh s zabolevaniyami zhelchevyvodyashchikh putey, morfologicheskie izmeneniya v zhelchnom puzyre pri khronicheskikh kholetsistitakh. Avtorami predlozhen patogeneticheski obosnovannyy metod lecheniya khronicheskikh kholetsistitov i pokazana ego effektivnost'. Rabota vypolnena v Irkutskom Gosudarstvennom meditsinskom universitete. Kniga budet polezna terapevtam, gastroenterologam, khirurgam, morfologam, spetsialistam po luchevoy diagnostike, a takzhe studentam meditsinskikh institutov.