Pinealectomy
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| Pinealectomy | |
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| Specialty | Endocrinology |
Pinealectomy is a surgical procedure in which the pineal gland is removed.[1] It is performed only in rare cases, where a pineocytoma or a pineal gland cyst has become life-threatening.[citation needed]
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[edit]- ^ Arendt, Josephine (1995). Melatonin and the mammalian pineal gland (1. ed.). London Weinheim: Chapman & Hall. p. 204. ISBN 0412536005.
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