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HOSPITAL OF THE MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER,
BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY
UPTON, NEW YORK 11973
Acoa Code 516 YAphank 4-6262

08-50-52 R

DISCHARGE SUMMARY

NAME
‘UNIT NO)

CIRC 63

and was able to get up and walk around, with an increase in appetite.
was considered fit to travel co Cleveland on 3 June 1974,

She

When the patient arrived at the
Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital
she was improved.
Her chest x rays were reviewed by a chest specialist and
the EKG by a cardiologist,
Their opinions were that the ? hilar shadows were

not suggestive of tuberculosis but of bronchitis, and the T-wave changes in

the EKG were not considered significant.
Their conclusions were that these
conditions did not preclude surgery.
Positive pressure ventilation and other
pulmonary exercises were instituted and resulted in removal of large amounts
of bronchial mucus with marked improvement in the patient's status prior to

surgery.

On 5 June 1974, thyroid surgery was

carried out,
The gland was found to
be small, thin, and brownish in color and quite friable.
A l-cm mass was
removed from the mid left lobe which was filled with necrotic fluid and a

smaller 5 am tongue of adenomatous tissue removed from near the isthmus,
pathological diagnoses for both masses were "adenomas".

pulmonary problems,

The

The patient's postoperative convalescence was uneventful with no
A positive serological test for syphilis was reported.

This was confirmed on re-check,

DISCHARGE MEDICATION & INSTRUCTIONS:

Dr. Knudsen, the resident physician
in the Marshall Islands, was notified
of the return of this patient and advised about the positive serological test

and the desirability for continued postural drainage procedures,

She was

resumed on thyroid hormone treatment (Synthroid?) and given a supply to take

back to the islands with her.
DISCHARGE DIAGNOSES:

She will be given careful followup exams.
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2.

Benign thyroid adenomas, surgically
removed,
Chronic broitchitis.

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Typed:

6/25/74
6/27/74

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