[Endourologic treatment of ureteral ruptures in closed abdominal trauma]

The traumatic fracture of the ureter is a very uncommon entity, which accounts for 1-5% of all urological traumatism. In most cases it is secondary to penetrating lesions, endoscopic or open surgery iatrogeny, its occurrence as secondary to closed traumatism being very rare. The paper presents four patients with partial ureteral fractures caused by closed traumatism. Management was in all cases conservative with endourological methods, using backward ureteral intubation, and no case required the use of other types of complementary surgical approaches; functional recovery of urinary tract was complete in all four patients.