Jejunal mucosal graft with transhepatic intubation. Rodney Smith's technic for very high strictures of the hepatic duct.

Very high hepatic strictures present a difficult surgical problem. Restenosis frequently occurs even when the best method has been applied. Rodney Smith developed a method of transhepatic intubation in association with a jejunal mucosal graft through which the transhepatic tube is passed and fixed.