Needle biopsies cannot pick this up, and the only way to distinguish between the two is surgery. They all die. Occur because there s lymphoid tissue in the thyroid ii. No one knows if they are carcinomas, or adenomas iii. Physicians are usually not so sure about what to do.
Aggressive therapy involves taking the lobe out.
Require a superior mediastinal dissection. Then follow pt along to see if their calcitonin levels are elevated. Pt s family should be gene-typed for the MEN syndrome Treatment 1. This gives the pt a better chance of survival 2. This then becomes an open chest procedure to ensure that the thyroid gland is elevated properly out of the neck and that the great vessels are visible while this is being done.