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