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HOSPITAL OF THE MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER.
BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LASORATORY
UPTON, NEW YORK 11973
‘Area Code 516 YAphank 4~6262
NAME
08-50-53 8
DISCHARGE SUMMARY
{UNIT NO.)
CIRC 63
geems appropriate and should not preclude surgery.
At the Cleveland Metropolitan General
Hoepital on 4 June 1974, thyroid
surgery was performed by B. M, Dobyns, M.D.
The gland was found to be 2-3 times
normal size, soft and very vascular (presumably related to pregnancy).
There
were 2 adenomas, one in the right lobe and one in the left; one filled with
colloid and the other with necrotic liquid.
The pathological diagnoses were
thyroid adenomas,-one with cystic degeneration and the other "a regeneratingdegenerating microadenoma’ Recovery from surgery was uneventful and che wound
healad nicely,
There were no complications related either to hypertension or
pregnancy,
The patient was discharged for travel to the Marshall Islands on
9 June 1974,
The hospital summary and a surgical and pathological report
are being included in the chart of this hospital.
DISCHARGE MEDICATION:
Dr. Knudsen, the resident physician
in the Marshall Islands, was
advised that the obstetrician on this case suggested that if hypertension
persists after pregnancy termination, some form of medical management should
be instituted.
It was not considered necessary to start this patient on
supplementary hormone cherapy.
DISCHARGE DIAGNOSES:
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1.
2.
Benign thyroid adenomas, surgically
renoved.
Essential hypertenaton (mild).
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Robert A. Conard, M.D.
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