Case Report
Incidental Finding of Froin Syndrome during Spinal Anesthesia in a 72-Year-Old Patient
Gunhan Gokahmetoglu1, Recep Aksu2*, Cihangir Biçer2 and Adnan Bayram2 | |
1Educational Research Hospital of Kayseri, Kayseri, Turkey | |
2Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Kayseri, Turkey Erciyes Univercity Medical Faculty, Kayseri, Turkey | |
Corresponding Author : | Aksu R Erciyes Univercity Medical Faculty Department of Anaestesiology and Reanimation, Kayseri, Turkey Tel: +90 -352 2076666-24035 Email: raksu@erciyes.edu.tr |
Received July 08, 2014; Accepted October 08, 2014; Published October 08, 2014 | |
Citation: Gokahmetoglu G, Aksu R, Biçer C, Bayram A (2014) Incidental Finding of Froin Syndrome during Spinal Anesthesia in a 72-Year-Old Patient. J Pain Relief 3:158. doi: 10.4172/2167-0846.1000158 | |
Copyright: © 2014, Gokahmetoglu G, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited |
Abstract
Froin Syndrome is characterized with xanthochromic CSF, high CSF protein content, complete blockage of CSF circulation. We reported our case of Froin Syndrome, a quite rare entity, with its radiologic features and characteristics of CSF biochemistry in the light of literature.