[Therapy of benign bile duct stenosis (author's transl)]

Simple end-to-end reconstruction of benign bile duct stenosis is possible only in a few cases. To preserve the function of papilla of Vater as the best anticholangitis therapy, we developed a method of bile duct expansion by a pedunculated jejunal patch-graft in animal experiments. After these successful experiments three patients with iatrogenic short bile duct stenosis were treated with this operation. These patients remain free of pathologic clinical and radiological findings 8-30 months after surgery.