PIP: In Spain, a 32-year-old woman presented at Motril Hospital in Granada with pain and a fever arising 3 days after undergoing laparoscopic tubal sterilization with electrocoagulation at a nearby hospital. She had tenderness on palpation in the left lower quadrant of the abdomen. Since no pathology was evident on ultrasonography but laboratory studies revealed leucocytosis, the physicians diagnosed pelvic inflammatory disease and treated her with clindamicin and gentamicin. She returned to Motril Hospital a month later with pain in the lower left quadrant of the abdomen and in the left costovertebral angle and a fever of 2 days' duration. The physical examination indicated peritonitis. The hemoglobin level was 100 g/l; the hematocrit was 32%; and she had leucocytosis. Free fluid in the pelvic peritoneum and mild ureterohydronephrosis were found by ultrasonography and confirmed by IVP. Retrograde pyelography indicated an ureteric fistula with contrast medium passing to the Douglas pouch. The clinicians could not pass a catheter via the affected ureteric segment. Laparotomy revealed uroperitoneum with a hole at the posterior parietal peritoneum through which urine passed. Surgeons dissected the area up to the ureteric injury, presumably caused by electrocoagulation during laparoscopy, anastomosed the ureter end-to-end, and placed a 6 F stent catheter in the ureter for 10 days. The IVP 2 months later was normal. As new laparoscopic procedures emerge, there will be new cases of ureteric injury. The first treatment choice is percutaneous nephrostomy. Surgery should be the treatment choice for cases of failure or when clinicians suspect other complications associated with the ureteric injury.