[Update on medullary thyroid carcinoma-What is relevant for surgeons?].

This article provides an overview of surgically relevant diagnostic and operative aspects of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) regarding current trends from recent studies and the expected adaptation of national S3 guidelines. The article addresses individual patient treatment options based on recognizable risk factors, the intraoperative resection strategy and standard procedures as well as the characteristics of sporadic and hereditary MTC with the concept of prophylactic thyroidectomy.