,.
tM.lEARCHIVES
-2-
3.
4.
Have undergone
surgery in the U. S. prior to 1969
because of nodular
thyroid disease;
histologic
diagnosis
of adenomatous
goiter and Huerthle
cell
tumor.
Responding
satisfactorily
to oral thyroid
hormone therapy with one exception:
This patient
shows some enlargement
of the remnant of thyroid
left from a partial
thyroidectomy
in 1964; as she
has not followed her post-operative
thyroid hormone
regimen,
there is question
as to whether she should
have further surgery.
11
(58%)
Young people operated on for thyroid disease during
fliagn~]ses: Primary
Au2ust 1969 and recovere~.
‘DC?nigll
adenomatous
goiter in ti:~)and papillary
adenoma of serious gi-adc mali[;nancy in one.
3
(16%)
(None of six Ailingi.nae children exposed
to an estimated
dose of 70 rads have shovm thyroid
tiysfuncti.on.)
II.
Surviving
adult Ron~elapesc
175 rad:-;external plLis 160
(Estimated
cxpo:ec! to fallout.
irradiation.)
2.
3.
-
34
at age 41.
Papillary
carcinoma
remc).~cd :.,,~)-~ical]y
No recurrence,
~!lyroid
hormone
therapy.
Taking oral
1
Small nodule at
thyroid hormone
1
age 40 which
di:.appcal”(idunder
oral
thdl”~p~.
This patient operated
on in 1969 for removal of
an inlrasive adenoma;
has recoverc.d satisfactorily.
(All the above in I and 11 who underv.ent surgery
good health ~.’i~lloutevidence of i-ecul-rence.)
111.
dose:
rc::l illtcrnal
Total
1.
external
1
appear
to be
Surviving
adult Ailinginae
peopi~
exposed to fallout.
dose:
70 rads exterl~al [;mmo irc::dia~ion.)
Total
- 8
in
(Estimated