“…At the beginning of the twenty first century, Virchow and his triad is still prominent and being widely acknowledged (Mannucci, 2002; Pearce, 2002; Blann, 2004; Chung & Lip, 2004; Malone & Agutter, 2006; Safavi‐Abbasi et al , 2006), but, for the first time, it is also being challenged (Brotman et al , 2004; Dickson, 2004a,b). These latter works dispute that Virchow put forward a triad of causes for thrombogenesis.…”