Rongelap 45
HOSPITAL OF THE
BPOOKHAYVIN
UPTON,
Area Code
MEDICAL RESEARCH CEN: {8
NATIONA, LABORATONT
Miw YORK 1197)
S16 Yaphank 4-476
amd)
B-45-41R
junit NO)
DISCHARGE SUMMA.&
ale
on June 10th, 1973 and transferred to the Cleveland Metropolitan Gereral Hospital,
At the Cleveland Metropolitan General
Hospital, on June 12¢:, surgical exploration
of the thyrold and upper mediastinum was carried out, No mass was found im the right
lower thyroid region and Lt was Chought that a somewhat thickened lower edge of the
sternocleidomastoid muscle may have been deceiving.
However,
a small cyst was
discovered in the lower lefe pole cf the gland which proved to be a degenerating
cystic adenoma, Convalescence was quite uneventful, A summary of the huspitalizatton inckuding surgical
BNL record,
and pathological repurts at Cleveland is
FINAL DIAGNOSIS;
included
in her
Adenoma with cystic degeneration.
DISCHARGE MEDECATICN:
On the basis cf her thyroic scatus,
thyroxin treatment is noc indivated,
However, a decision is pending a@ to whetner to give thyroxin supplemental treatment in this groupct islanders whe received a amalker dose of radiacion. She
will have perisdic followeup examinations including determination of serum *hyroxin
levels at six-month intervals,
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fp atere,
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Robert A. Conard, M.D,
RA: bwa
Dict: 6/27/73
Typed:6/28/73
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