Most often, the entire gland is overproducing thyroid hormone.

Adrenal tumors usually require the surgical removal of the entire affected gland, but normal hormone function can be maintained by the remaining healthy gland.

The Sonablate software allows the physician to precisely define the treatment zones in order to destroy the entire gland.

Your surgeon will remove the entire gland and the lymph nodes surrounding the gland.

Adrenalectomy: A procedure to remove the entire adrenal gland.

Portions of the prostate remain because it is impossible to remove the entire gland through a trans-urethral prostatectomy.

En bloc resection: Surgery to remove the entire parathyroid gland and the capsule around it.

With this position, the entire gland is palpated.

Total thyroidectomy removes the entire gland.

The base, which forms the secretory coil, is set deep in the hypodermis, and the entire gland is surrounded by adipose tissue.