Medicine:Pinealectomy

Pinealectomy
Specialty	endocrinology

Pinealectomy is a surgical procedure in which the pineal gland is removed. It is performed only in rare cases, where a pineocytoma or a pineal gland cyst has become life-threatening.

See also

• Hypophysectomy
• Thyroidectomy
• Adrenalectomy
• List of surgeries by type