Yes, half of the thyroid gland can be surgically removed. This surgery is known as a partial thyroidectomy. It is common that after half of the thyroid gland is surgically removed that a patient will need to start taking daily thyroid medication.
If your remaining thyroid tissue is not able to keep up with your body's needs for thyroid hormones, you will need replacement medications.
lose of hormones
Yes! a thyroid gland IS an endocrine gland
The thyroid gland.
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A person might need to have their thyroid gland removed if there is concern that they might have thyroid cancer, or that it has been confirmed that they have thyroid cancer. Another reason for removing the thyroid gland is to help treat hyperthyroidism or Graves' disease.Related Article: Hyperthyroidism and Graves' DiseaseRelated Article: Thyroid Cancer Prognosis: What to Expect
Apparently this would decrease the drug companies billion dollar industry, so probably not likely.However - India has tested with rabbit thyroidsthyroid.about.com/b/.../thyroid-transplant-from-a-rabbit.htm
The only effect of TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone) is to stimulate the thyroid gland tissue to produce thyroxine. If there is no longer a thyroid gland to stimulate, the TSH is produced in great abundance, but with no effect.
thyroid gland
If a person has suffered from thyroid cancer, and has had their thyroid gland surgically removed in order to treat the cancer, that person would then have the most severe form of hypothyroidism, which is to have no thyroid gland at all.
The thyroid gland
the thyroid
Thyroid Gland is the gland that produce the hormone thyroxin.