B-Mode ultrasonography is an important complementary tool in the early diagnosis of carotid pre-atheromatous vascular disease. The authors report their personal experience concerning 86 patients affected or not by neurological transitory or persistent symptoms, and point out two main semeiological remarks of endoluminal pathologic conditions. The findings obtained are related to the more recent physiopathological and pathological-anatomical data related the growth and the evolution of atheromatous lesions of the carotid district.