Thyroxine can be given in which thyroid carcinoma: September 2009
Papillary
Medullary
Anaplastic
Undifferentiated
Ans. A: Papillary On the basis that most of the tumours are TSH depedent it is a standard practice to prescribe thyroxine for all patients after operation for differentiated thyroid carcinoma (papillary and follicular type) to suppress endogenous TSH production.