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Table 13 (continued)
Thyroid Abnormalitites in Exposed Rongelap People, 1969
(Arrangedin order of appearance of abnormality )
Time of
development
Subject No.
and sex
Present
Age at
age, yr exposure Year
Age
Findings, presentstatus (1969)
pre-
33
«=*F
16
1
1966
13.
9/65 questionable irregular gland. 3/66 definite 5-mm noduleleft lobe.
7/66 subtotal thyroidectomy: adenomatousgoiter, Hiirthle cell adenoma. No recurrence. Euthyroid on thyroxine.
pre-
65
F
16
1
1966
13.
9/65 questionable smail nodule. 3/66 5-mm nodule right lobe. 7/66
right subtotal thyroidectomy: adenomatous goiter. No recurrence.
ved
ved
Euthyroid on thyroxine.
ig of
Eu-
asis.
nee.
<P: ae et
ning
ee bhe t
964.
woeLeaps ade operated.
eu-
23
M
19
4
1967
17
15
F
22
7
1968
21
ig
F
36
21
1969
36
Thyroid Nodules (Plus Hypothyroidism), Marclf"1969
10de
don
my:
th 2-
Group
Rongelap
(175 rads y)
carly
land.
tous
Age at
exposure
Estimated
thyroid dose,
rads
Percent
thyroid lesions
<10
>10
all
500-1400
160¢
a
on
<10
275-550
55
~-
12.5 (1/8)
7.1 (1/14)
(14 rads y)
<10
55-110
0.0 {/40)
Rongelap
unexposed
<10
Ailingnae
(69 rads y)
Utirik
‘cur-
t-cm
idec-
=Knarled mass right lobe. Complete thyroidectomy.Follicular carci-
nomaof right lobe. Adenomatousnodules were also present in remainder of gland.
Table 14
thy-
_Eu-
Slight nodularity both lobes. 1968-1969 nodularity increase. Subtotal
thyroidectomy 1969. Benign adenomatous nodules.
* Ailingnae group; received 70 rads gammaradiation. This patient died of influenza-pneumonia in 1968. Another 77year-old woman in the Ailingnae group (#43) died in 1964 of pneumonia, and, though no chemical evidence ofthyroid _
adenomata was noted prior to death, histological examination of her thyroid revealed adenomatous changes. A 29year-old female (#70) from this group had a neurofibroma removed from theleft side of the neck, near the thyroid, in
1968.
969,
nordecxine.
1.5 to 2-cm nodule right lobe. 1968 slight increase in size of nodule.
Subtotal thyroidectomy 1968. No recurrence. Euthyroid on thyroxine.
>10
all
>10
all
>10
all
aDose from 131. 132, 133, 135].
Based on present population.
14
~
-
°Children 10 to 20 years of age at exposure received up to about 500 rads.
SUCb 200
89.5 (17/19)
8.8 (3/34)
39.6 (21/53)
0.0 (0/6)
5.1 (3/59)
3.0 (3/99)
0.0 (0/61)
2.3 (3/133)
1.5 (3/194)
Percent
malignancy
5.3 (1/19)
5.9 (2/34)
5.7 (3/53)
-
-
1.7 (1/59)
1.0 (1/99)
-
-