Background Medullary thyroid cancer is a neuroendocrine malignancy that can occur
sporadically or as the result of genomic rearranged during transfection mutations. Medullary …

Introduction Lymphadenectomy and thyroidectomy is standard treatment for medullary
thyroid carcinoma (MTC), but the prognostic importance of the number of lymph nodes …

Thank you very much for forwarding us the letter from Machens and Dralle regarding our
recent publication on Micromedullary Carcinoma of the Thyroid. We sincerely appreciate the …

Background: Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC), a thyroid malignoma arising from the
parafollicular or C cells of the thyroid gland, accounts for about 7% of all thyroid cancers and …

Opinion statement Patients with clinically evident medullary thyroid cancer should have a
total extracapsular thyroidectomy with bilateral central neck dissection and an ipsilateral …

Purpose Total thyroidectomy (TT) with level VI and VII central neck dissection is the initial
treatment for medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) without identifiable neck metastasis. Level …

The aim of this study was to emphasize the importance of adequate primary surgery in cases
of medullary carcinoma of the thyroid. We retrospectively reviewed 44 cases of medullary …

Background Surgery is the curative therapy for patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma
(MTC). In determining the extent of surgery, the risk of complications should be considered …

Objective: To identify prognostic factors of clinical outcome and long-term survival in
medullary thyroid cancer (MTC). Design: Retrospective case series of 51 consecutive …