Table 4.
Patient
No.
& sex
Histopathologic diagnoses of thyroid nodules among Marshallese
study populations.
Age at
surgery
Years post
exposure
Pathologic
diagnosis
Remarks
Rongelap exposed
21 F
13
2M
20 M
64 F
33 F
65
19
23
54
18
36
72
17 F
69 F
42 F
61 F
F
M
M
M
F
M
F
15 F
75 F
10 1/2
Adenomatous nodules
Hyperplasia
12
18
4]
13
1]
11
11]
12
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Papillary carcinoma
Adenomatous nodules
Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia
Lymph node metastases
Hyperplasia, fibrosis
13
14
19
14
34
21
20
12
14
14
14
15
15
15
1/2
1/2
1/2
1/2
1/2
1/2
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Papillary carcinoma
Adenomatous nodules
Papillary carcinoma
Fibrosis
Hyperplasia
18 1/2
Adenomatous nodules
19
No diagnostic lesion
Fibrosis
Papillary hyperplasia,
12
15
13
20
22,32
24
10 1/2
10 1/2
12
12
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodules
Adenomatous nodules
15 1/2,25
Adenomatous nodules
with follicular
adenoma
40 M
46
74 F
37 M
66 F
34
45
54
22
23 1/2
25 1/2
Papillary carcinoma
No diagnostic lesion
Adenomatous nodule
85 M
25
25 1/2
Adenomatous nodules
83 M
24
20
Adenomatous nodule
Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia
Papillary hyperplasia
Hyperplasia
Lymph node metastases
Focal hypercellularity
fibrosis
Ailingnae exposed
59 F
8 F
18
53
12
Adenomatous nodule
45 F
51 F
53 F
45
45
33
19
20
27
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodules
18
Adenomatous nodule
with occult
papillary carcinoma
~ 64 -
Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia, focal
atypia
Fibrosis