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

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Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia, focal
atypla
Fibrosis

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