nbme20/Block 3/Question#3
A 45-year-old woman has a thyroidectomy because of ...
Calcitonin
xxabi
Just to add - patient likely has MEN 2A or 2B with the presence of medullary thyroid cancer and pheochromocytoma
+ 2019-05-29T02:32:45Z
sympathetikey
@xxabi Was going to say the same thing.
+ 2019-05-31T23:24:05Z
to snoo-finity ... and beyond!
submitted by hayayah(244), 2019-05-14T23:19:09Z
Patient has medullary carcinoma. Malignant proliferation of parafollicular "C" cells that produce calcitonin and have sheets of cells in an amyloid stroma.