[The innominate artery syndrome]

During to the peculiar morophology and symptomatology of the haemodynamic disturbance following occlusion of the innominate artery, the anonyma syndrome ought to be treated as an independent type of the cerebro-vascular syndrome. The anonyma syndrome is generally a part-symptom of obliterating arteriosclerosis of multiple localization and has therefore an unfavourable prognosis. After a brief survey of the literature the clinical data of patients operated for innominate artery occlusion are reported together with the surgical results.