[Indications for cerebral revascularization surgery (author's transl)].

Cerebrovascular diseases are among the most widespread. In the USA alone there is at any time a population of 1.6 million people with current stroke syndrome or the sequelae thereof. The most effective weapon to combat this disease is prevention, and here reference is made in particular to surgical prevention, especially through endoarterectomy of the extracranial internal carotid, and to vertebrobasilar circulatory failure.