Table 1.

Summary of published cases of melanotic medullary carcinoma thyroid

S. No.	Author & Year	Age & Sex	Duration of symptoms	Histology		Pigmentation	Follow up
1.	Marcus JN 1982 [3]	53/M	15 days	Classic	Dendritic cells	Dendritic cells	No evidence of recurrence or metastasis 2.5 years after surgery
2.	Posen JA 1984 [4]	38/F	5 years	Classic	--	Diffuse	Not mentioned
3.	Eng HL 1989 [5]	68/F	1 month	Classic	Dendritic cells	Dendritic cells	Not mentioned
4.	Kimura N 1989 [6]	62/M	2 years	Classic	Glandular	Both components	2 years metastasis
5.	Beerman H 1990 [7]	48/F	15 days	Classic	Spindle cells	Spindle cells	13 months died with metastasis
		36/F	14 years	Classic	--	Diffuse	20 months
6.	Romdhane KP 1995 [8]	51/M	10 years	Paraganglioma like	Dendritic cells	Dendritic cells	No evidence of recurrence or metastasis 1 year after surgery
7.	Ikeda T 1998 [9]	72/F	2 months	Paraganglioma like	Sustentacular cells	Sustentacular cells	Not mentioned
8.	Singh ZN 1999 [10]	55/F	4 months	Typical	--	Diffuse	Presented with LN metastasis; No evidence of metastasis after 1 year
9.	De Lume MA 2001 [11]	20/M	9 months	Classic	--	Diffuse	Not mentioned
10.	Present case	52/F	3 months	Classic	--	Diffuse	24 months, recurred thrice, metastasis to skull bones and died