[Clinical studies on kinking of the neck-vessels]

A survey is given of the clinical course of 273 patients hospitalised at one of the departments for internal diseases of a general hospital because of cerebral lesions of different pattern and origin. By means of angiography carried out on 60 patients kinking of the extracranial arteries was proved in 18 cases. Ten patients were submitted to reconstructive vascular surgery: 7 of them are symptom-free. Signs, symptoms and possibilities of surgical or conservative treatment are discussed.