[Results of treatment of ureterolithiasis with shock-wave extracorporeal lithotripsy]

At the Urological Clinic, Faculty Hospital Hradec Králové the authors performed extracorporeal lithotripsy in ureterolithiasis in 172 patients, mean age 46.5 years. The patients were divided into two groups. The first group was formed by 114 patients (66.3%) with subrenal ureterolithiasis, the second group by 58 patients (33.7%) with iuxtavesical ureterolithiasis. In 56 patients (32.6%) derivation of urine had to be made by means of a stent or nephrostomic puncture drainage because of an obstruction by a concrement. The general success rate of the method was 96.4% in the subrenal localization and 81% in iuxtavesical ureterolithiasis. In 15 patients an alternate solution had to be sought (URS or extraction of the concrement by a Dormi basket, Zeiss loop).