[Contact laser lithotripsy--an effective minimally traumatic method of treatment of cholelithiasis with calculi of the kidney, ureter and urinary bladder].

An experience with using contact laser lithotripsy is presented in treatment of such actual disease as cholelithiasis. This kind of modern minimally traumatic lithotripsy used in 73 patients has shown it to be effective independent of localization of the calculi: both in the urinary bladder and the kidney and ureter.