Reoperation for biliary atresia after hepatic portoenterostomy--experience in 29 cases with a report on the longest survivor in Japan.

This communication reviews the experience with reoperations for correction of biliary atresia on 29 patients at the University of Tokyo Hospital since 1972, and discusses their value in the management of biliary atresia. It also includes a report on a patient who was treated by a repeated hepatic portoenterostomy in 1972 and has survived for more than ten years without jaundice.