title: Transperitoneal laparoscopic management of urinary tract stone disease: experience in a third level hospital.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of this paper is to describe the clinical-surgical characteristics of patients who underwent laparoscopic procedures for the   management of urinary tract stone disease when performing extracorporeal, percutaneous or endourological procedures was not available.
  
  
  METHODS
  A descriptive study based on information from the medical records of patients who underwent surgical laparoscopic management of urinary  stone disease between January 2001 and May 2010 at a third level hospital. Epidemiological, clinical and procedure-related variables were taken  from the medical records. Univariate analysis was performed with the statistical software STATA 10.1.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 29 procedures (27 patients) for treatment of urinary stone disease in adults. The average age was 45 years. 55% of  patients  were men. 17 stones were found on the right side, 5 were pyelic, 19 of the proximal ureter, 4 of the medium ureter and 1 distal. All patients  underwent laparoscopic surgery as first surgical option. Average operative time was 142 ± 32 minutes. Three procedures were defined as failures.  Hospital stay presented a median of 2 days. There were seven complications.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Laparoscopic surgery is a good surgical option for the management of urinary tract stone disease in adults.
authors.affiliation: Urology Department, Hospital Universitario del Valle, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
authors.forename: Jaime Alejandro
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Restrepo
authors.forename: Herney Andrés
authors.initials: HA
authors.lastname: García
authors.forename: Diego Fernando
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Castillo
authors.forename: Jorge G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Carbonell
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006761:Hospitals; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010537:Peritoneum; D014545:Urinary Calculi / Q000601:surgery*