Rongelap unexposed 841
MOVIAL OF Ted miDICaAl RESEARCH CENTER
MOOSHAVIN NaliOual (ABOeaTORT
yan)
WON, Miw road 187)
08-50-53 RK
tea Code $16 TAphens 4-62:
Beat MO)
DISCHARGE SUMMALY
CIRC 63
seems appropriate and should not preclude surgery.
At the Cleveland Metropolf{tan General
Hospital on & June $974, thyroid
surgery was performed by
B.
M.
Dobyns, M.D.
The
gland was
found
to be 2-3
times
nornal size, soft and very vascular (presumably related to pregnancy). There
were 2 adenomas, one in the right lobe and one in the tefc; one filled with
colloid and
the other with necrotic
Liquid,
The pathological diagnoses were
thyroid adenomas, one with cystic degeneration and the other "a regenerating:
degenerating microadenoma” Recovery from surgery was uneventful and the wound
healed nicely, There were no complications related either to hypertension or
pregnancy,
The pattent was discharged for travel to the Marshall Islands on
9 June 1974, The hospital summary and a surgical and pathological reporc
are being Included in the chart of this hospital,
DISCHARGE MEDICATION:
advised
that
Dr.
the obstetrician on this case
Knudsen,
the resident physician
fn the Marshall Islands, was
suggested that
if hypertension
persists after pregnancy termination, some form of medical management should
be instituted,
It was not considered necessary to start this pactent on
supplementary hormone therapy,
DISCHARGE DIAGNOSES:
1,
Benign thyroid adenomas, surgically
removed,
2.
Essential hypertension (mitd),
SRiked 6 bere eC
Robert A,
eth
Received:
Typed:
25 June 1976
27 June
£976
CG be Cmnnd Ve
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