Ninety-five patients with benign biliary strictures are presented in this study. All underwent reconstructive biliary surgery, either for proximal biliary strictures (Group A; 38 patients) or for distal biliary strictures (Group B; 57 patients). The type of bypass was individualized according to each patient's mechanical and anatomical characteristics as were assessed in our cholangiographic findings. For group A we used either a proximal to the stricture intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomy between Roux-en-Y jejunal loop and the main right or left hepatic ducts or multiple intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomies between segmental hepatic ducts and a Roux-en-Y jejunal loop. For Group B we chose between a choledocho- or hepaticoduodenostomy and a choledocho- or hepaticojejunostomy. There were three deaths due to sepsis, one in patients of group A and two among those of group B. Long-term results were satisfactory. None of our patients during a mean six year follow-up underwent further surgery for reasons related with either his/her operation or disease.