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HOSMIAL Of THE SALOKCAL RESEARCH CENTER,
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BROCKHAVEN NATIONAL LASOLATORT
UPIOM, NEW YORK 11975
08-50-52 BR
EMT NOL
Ares Code S14 TAphonh 44-6262
CIRC 63
DISCHARGE. SUMMARY
and was able to get up and valk around, with an increase in appetite,
was considered {ie to travel to Cleveland on 3 June 1974,
She
When the patient arrived at the
Cleveland Metropolitan General Hospital
she was Improved, Her chest x raya were reviewed by a chest specialist and
the £KG by « cardiologist, Their opinions were that che 7 hilar shadows were
nok suggestive of tuberculosis but of bronchitis, and the T-wave changes in)
the EKG were not considercd 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 $ June 1974, thyroid surgery war
carried out. The gland was found to
be sralt,
thin, and brownish in color and quite Eriable,
A l-cm masa was
removed from the mid left lobe which was filled with necrotic fluid and a
smaller $ mm tongue of adenomatous tissue removed from near che isthmus, The
nathological dlagnoses for boch masses were “adenomas”,
The patient's postoperative con+
valescence was uneventful with no
pulmonary problems, <A positive serological test for syphilis was reported,
This was confirmed on re-check,
DISCHARGE MEDICATION G& 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 destrabilicy for continued postural drainage procedures, She was
resumed on thyroid hormone treatment (Synthroid) and giver a supply to take
back to the islands with her, She will be given careful follaup exams,
DISCHARGE DIAGNOSES:
1,
2.
Benign thyrold adenomas, surgically
Temoved,
Chronic browcnitis.
PRADA O Lomns—
Robert A,
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