[Laser contact lithotripsy for concrements of the upper urinary tract in an urgent urological department].

A total of 273 lithotripsies were made from March 2008 to February 2009 in an urgent urology department. Of them, 85 patients had concrements in the kidney pelvis, 117--in the ureter and 61--in the calyx. Lithotripsy was made in renal failure caused by two-sided block in 6 cases, in acute pyelonephritis in 29 cases in which lithotripsy was performed after preliminary stenting, sanation and elimination of suppuration.