Dannaya dissertatsionnaya rabota, yavlyayushchayasya rezul'tatom pyatnadtsatiletnego izucheniya avtorom bol'nykh tseliakiey v Sankt-Peterburge i Rossii, posvyashchena problemam vsestoronnego izucheniya etogo zabolevaniya u detey, v tom chisle klinicheskoy kharakteristike zabolevaniya. Provedeno tshchatel'noe issledovanie bolee tryekhsot detey, bol'nykh tseliakiey, so sravnitel'noy kharakteristikoy manifestatsii i techeniya zabolevaniya, opisaniem simptomov pri nachale zabolevaniya i pri dal'neyshem ego razvitii, a takzhe pri vozmozhnykh oslozhneniyakh. Znachitel'naya chast' issledovaniya posvyashchena diagnostike i effektu bezglyutenovoy diety. Osoboe vnimanie udeleno resheniyu sotsial'nykh voprosov tseliakii u detey, psikhologicheskim aspektam bezglyutenovoy diety, razrabotke razlichnykh variantov diety, v tom chisle primenyaemoy v usloviyakh statsionarnogo lecheniya bol'nykh