If everything is in order we then carefully anesthetize our patient. This area contains graphic pictures of a ferret with adrenal gland disease. We make our incision in a particular location in the center of the abdomen, called a ventral mid line incision. In this picture our surgeon has incised through the skin and is pointing to the muscle layer he will be going through to gain entrance into the abdomen. It is important that we go through this particular area because this is the area that will be able to hold the sutures we put into the muscle, and thus prevent a hernia.
Ferrets are little guys, so their surgical anatomy is small.
The pictures you previously saw of the adrenal glands were enlarged to allow easier visualization. The picture below is from an actual surgery. The white arrow points to the diseased adrenal gland that is held at the tip of the hemostat running vertically. The other hemostat to the left is clamping off a blood vessel . The white arrow points to the suture that remains once the gland is removed.