Appendix IV
THYROID TABLES
Table 1.
Individual listing of thyroid abnormalities in Marshallese, 1980.
This does not include cases with indiscrete thyroid masses.*
Under "Hypofunction," two TSH levels >6 yU/dl were considered positive, except
that in presurgical cases one such level was considered positive because only
one or a few samples were available for testing; two levels >3 were considered
Suggestive.
Pt. No.
& sex
Ca = carcinoma.
Age
1979
Est.
thyroid
dose
(rads)
Thyroid Nodularities
Age at
detection
Surgery
Diagnosis
(a) Rongelap exposed at age <10 (includes 2 in utero:
3M
5M
26
26
26
1150
13
Bost.
54 M
65 F
2M
17 F
19 M
21 F
42 F
23M
69 F
26
26
27
28
30
28
28
29
29
1150
1150
1100
1050
1000
1050
1050
1000
1000
13
13
12
12
14
13
13
19
15
Bost. '68
Bost. '66
Bost. '65
Guam '64
Bost. ‘68
Guam '64
Bost. '66
Bost. '68
Guam '64
15 F
32
855
17
Cleve.
20
36
61.
32
32
32
33
28
855
855
810
1050
18
21
20
28
Bost. '65
Cleve. '69
Bost. '66
25
?
33 F
72 F
M
M
F
M
83 M
85 M
31
25 7
1150
1150
900
?
14
24
25
Cleve.
'66
'69
'69'79
Cleve.
'74
Cleve.
'79
Hypofunction
TSH (uU/d1)
No. 83 and 85)
Adenomatous nod.
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
Papillary Ca
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
‘
"
Adenomatous nod.
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
"
>400 (myxedema )
"
"
22
22
6.2,
8.2
470
4.9
4.7
5.2,
6.7,
6.7
7.3
Hyperpl. nodule
(b) Rongelap exposed at age 10-18
75 #F
40
655
24
Cleve.
'72
74 F
40
425
32
Cleve.
'76
67 F
38
520
24
Adenoma
Nodules
'74
Papillary Ca
*Three cases (2 exposed and 1 control) are not included in the table since nodules palpated clinically did not reveal demonstrable pathology at surgery.
(See Table 3).