[Intraoperative angiography in carotid artery reconstruction-Pathological findings, reliability and importance of the procedure].

Aim: To investigate the value of intraoperative angiography and its ad hoc evaluation with respect to cases of surgical technical inaccessibility.

Methods: Overall, 523 consecutive carotid artery thrombendarterectomy (TEA) patients with intraoperative control angiography, postoperative color-coded duplex sonography and retrospective re-evaluation of documented angiographic images were included in the evaluation.

Results: In the retrospective angiographic re-evaluation 23 (4.