Thrombosis has been attributed to platelet function abnormalities in a variety of vascular diseases. A patient with superior sagittal sinus thrombosis noted to have a normal work- up for hypercoagulable state but who had hyperaggregability of platelets after stimulation with epinephrine is described. A di agnosis of sticky platelet syndrome, type II was eventually made.
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