Treatment of choice for medullary carcinoma of thyroid to: (A) Total thyroidectomy, (B) Paial thyroidectomy, (C) I131 ablation, (D) Hemithyroidectomy
Answer is A. Treatment is by total thyroidectomy and either prophylactic or therapeutic resection of the central and bilateral cervical lymph nodes. Bailey & Love's sho practise of surgery,25th edition,page no:798;SRB's manual of surgery,5th edition,page no:487.