[Characteristics of the clinical course and treatment of patients with urinary calculi of a solitary kidney].

343 patients with disease of solitary kidney were analysed. Urolithiasis was found in 230 of them. Incidence of chronic pyelonephritis was 91, renal hypertension 50 and chronic renal failure 63 per cent. Urinary obstruction took place in 140 (61%) patients. 312 operations were performed on 175 patients. 149 anuric patients were operated, 92 underwent ureteric catheterisation and 16 hemodialysis. Primary operative lethality was 5 and recurrence rate 36 per cent.