[Significance of activities of a medical sanitary detachment from complex expedition if the USSR Academy of Sciences (1925-1930) in the development of surgical treatment for osteoarticular tuberculosis in Iakutiia].

The paper shows the value of the activities of a medical sanitary detachment from the complex expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1925-1930) in the development of surgical treatment for bone and joint tuberculosis and its sequelae in adults from Yakutia. A total of 981 operations were made from 1951 to 1994. Priorities were given to timely surgical interventions, including radical reparative spinal and joint operations, by using the Ilizarov apparatus.