EARLY SURGICAL INTERVENTION FOR SYMPTOMATIC RENAL AND URETERAL STONES IS ASSOCIATED WITH REDUCED NARCOTIC REQUIREMENT RELATIVE TO TRIAL OF PASSAGE.

To evaluate if trial of passage or initial surgical intervention resulted in less narcotic analgesia utilization in patients with acute renal colic due to stone disease.

We retrospectively evaluated 135 patients with acute renal colic due to nephroureterolithiasis managed by a single surgeon.