[-Emergency surgical treatment of acute carotid occlusion-].

Conservative medical treatment of acute occlusion of the extracranial internal carotid artery usually gives mediocre results. When a major neurological deficit is involved, mortality can reach 16 to 55%, morbidity due to definitive deficit 40 to 69% and cure only 2 to 12%. It is thus logical to attempt revascularization as an emergency procedure.