Table 4.

Patient
No. & sex

Histopathologic diagnoses of thyroid nodules among Marshallese
study populations.
Age at
Surgery

Years post
exposure _

Pathologic
diagnosis

Remarks

Rongelap exposed

21 F

13

10 1/2

Adenomatous nodules

Hyperplasia

69 F
2M
20 M
64 F
33 F
42 F

15
12
18
41
13
13

10 1/2
11
11
jal
12
12

Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Papillary carcinoma
Adenomatous nodules
Adenomatous nodules

Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia
Lymph node metastases
Hyperplasia, fibrosis
Papillary hyperplasia

65 F
19 M

13
14

12
14 1/2

Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule

Fibrosis
Hyperplasia

17 F

12

61 F

20

23 M

54
18
36
72
15
75

M
F
M
F
F
F

40
83
74
37
66

M
M
F
M
F

85 M

19

14
34
21
20
22, 32
24

10 1/2

12

14 1/2

Adenomatous nodule

Adenomatous nodules

Adenomatous nodule

14 1/2
15 1/2
15 1/2
15 1/2
15 1/2,25
18 1/2

Adenomatous nodule
Papillary carcinoma
Adenomatous nodules
Papillary carcinoma
Adenomatous nodules
Adenomatous nodules
with follicular

46
24
34
45
54

19
20
22
23 1/2
25 1/2

No diagnostic lesion
Adenomatous nodule
Papillary carcinoma
No diagnostic lesion
Adenomatous nodule

25

25 1/2

Adenomatous nodules

adenoma

Hyperplasia

Hyperplasia
Lymph node metastases

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

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Geos du

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Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia, focal
atypia
Fibrosis

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