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