It is a classical result
that a closed exceptional polar set is removable for subharmonic functions
which are bounded above. Gardiner has shown that in the case of a compact
exceptional set the above boundedness condition can be relaxed by imposing
certain smoothness and Hausdorff measure conditions on the set. We give
related results for a closed exceptional set, by replacing the smoothness and
Hausdorff measure conditions with one sole condition on Minkowski upper
content.