Patologicheskiy perelom - eto polnoe ili chastichnoe narushenie tselostnosti kosti, izmenennoy kakim-libo predshestvovavshim mestnym ili generalizovannym protsessom s oslableniem ee prochnosti. Dlya ego vozniknoveniya dostatochno nebol'shogo usiliya, obychno ne prevyshayushchego predely obychnoy fizicheskoy nagruzki. Klinicheskoe techenie i lechenie podobnykh perelomov imeyut svoi osobennosti v zavisimosti ot zabolevaniy, protekayushchikh v kosti, a naibolee chastoy prichinoy yavlyayutsya opukholi i opukholepodobnye porazheniya kostey. V monografii osveshcheny voprosy etiologii i patogeneza patologicheskikh perelomov, obobshcheny dannye sovremennoy literatury i sobstvennye nablyudeniya po rassmatrivaemoy probleme. Predstavlena kliniko-rentgenologicheskaya semiotika patologicheskikh perelomov i varianty ikh lecheniya. Detal'no izlozhen printsip kriokhirurgicheskogo lecheniya patologicheskikh perelomov opukholevogo geneza. Dana podrobnaya kharakteristika vozmozhnym oshibkam i oslozhneniyam operativnogo lecheniya. Kniga prednaznachena dlya travmatologov-ortopedov, onkologov, rentgenologov i khirurgov.