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
17 F
69 F
2M
20 M
64 F
33 F
42 F
61 F
65 F
19 M
23 M
54 M
18 F
36 M
72 F
15 F
75 F
40
83
74
37
66
13
12
15
12
18
&l
13
13
20
13
14
19
14
34
21
20
22, 32
24
10 1/2
10 1/2
10 1/2
\1
11
Bt
12
12
12
12
14 1/2
14 1/2
14 1/2
15 1/2
15 1/2
15 1/2
15 1/2,25
18 1/2
Adenomatous nodules
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Papillary carcinoma
Adenomatous nodules
Adenomatous nodules
Adenomatous nodules
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Papillary carcinoma
Adenomatous nodules
Papillary carcinoma
Adenomatous nodules
Adenomatous nodules
with follicular
Hyperplasia
‘Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia
Lymph node metastases
Hyperplasia, fibrosis
Papillary hyperplasia
Fibrosis
Focal hypercellularity
adenoma
M
M
F
M
F
46
24
34
45
54
19
20
22
23 1/2
25 1/2
No diagnostic lesion
Adenomatous nodule
Papillary carcinoma
No diagnostic lesion
Adenomatous nodule
85 M
25
25 1/2
Adenomatous nodules
Fibrosis
Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia
Lymph node metastases
Papillary hyperplasia,
fibrosis
Ailingnae exposed
59 F
8 F
53
18
12
18
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
45 F
51 F
53
45
45
33
19
20
27
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodules
with occult
papillary carcinoma
- 64 -
Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia, focal
atypla
Fibrosis