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Surgical removal of the pineal gland Medical intervention

Pinealectomy
Specialty	Endocrinology
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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.

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