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A Model of Free Tissue Transfer: The Rat Epigastric Free Flap
Published on: January 15, 2017
Sticky platelet syndrome as a possible cause for free flap failure--a case report
Denys John Loeffelbein1, Claudia Maria Baumann, Thomas Mücke
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Technische Universität München, München, Germany. loeffelbein@mkg.med.tum.de
Microsurgery
|March 19, 2010
Abstract:
We report a case of a patient who developed clinical symptoms of sticky platelet syndrome (SPS) during free microvascular flap transplantation, following resection of an oral tumor. Multiple arterial thromboses of two free tissue transfers occurred as a probable result of SPS. Diagnosis and treatment of the various forms of SPS are described.

