A 43-year-old woman with left facial pain caused by occipital neuralgia was scheduled for C2 ganglionotomy and adhesiolysis of
left C2 root. General anesthesia, surgical procedure, and emergence have done uneventfully. However, she developed seizure a...
A 43-year-old woman with left facial pain caused by occipital neuralgia was scheduled for C2 ganglionotomy and adhesiolysis of
left C2 root. General anesthesia, surgical procedure, and emergence have done uneventfully. However, she developed seizure after
5 minutes postoperatively in post-anesthesia recovery unit. She showed loss of consciousness and generalized muscular rigidity
after shouting “I want to die”. Neurologic examination and neuroimaging revealed no neuronal damage. Her generalized muscular
rigidity improved by her daughter’s visit and worsened by mention about her husband, and disappeared after 40 minutes spontaneously.