[Necessity for unification of the clinico-anatomic classification of tuberculosis]

Critical assessment of tuberculosis classification adopted at II(XII) Congress of Phthisiatrists Association on September 7-9 1994 in Saratov as well as the section "Tuberculosis" in the International statistical classification of diseases and problems associated with health 10th reevaluation is presented. Main critical remarks are the following: organo-pathological principles of the classification, uncertainty of the definitions, ignorance of the iatrogenic conditions.