Renal autotransplantation has been a treatment of choice for renovascular hypertension, renal artery aneurysm, complicated staghorn calculi, ureteral disorders and others. The paper reports 5 cases of extensively damaged ureter and discusses the indication and the results of operation. There were three cases of postoperative extensive ureteral stricture. One patient had postoperative ureteral injury with retroperitoneal abscess. The last one showed renal foreign body calculi with recurrent pyelonephritis after ureterocutaneostomy. The postoperative course of four patients had been uneventful revealing well functioning autotransplanted kidneys without hydronephrosis and infection during the follow-up period of 22 to 42 months. However, the patient with the ureteral injury and retroperitoneal abscess died of bleeding from renal vein anastomosis on the 15th postoperative day, since the renal pedicle showed marked inflammatory change including renal vein wall. Subsequently, autotransplantation is contraindicated in the cases with marked inflammation in the renal pedicle. In cases of various other ureteral lesions including long distance ureteral stricture, this procedure is recommended when neither the end to side ureteral anastomosis, Boari's bladder flap operation nor bladder hitch operation is feasible.