Researchers Support Hemithyroidectomy for Unilateral MTC
Hemithyroidectomy seems to be equally beneficial and safer than total thyroidectomy for unilateral medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), according to a study recently published in Langerbeck’s Archives of Surgery. “For patients with unilateral [sporadic MTC], hemithyroidectomy was adequate as a locally curative surgery, because the patients underwent total thyroidectomy did not benefit more from it in…