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Her hospital course during the
preliminary examinations here

at Brookhaven was uneventful.

SURGERY AT THE CLEVELAND METROPOLITAN GENERAL
HOSPITAL, CLEVELAND OHIO:

Dr. B. Dobbins performed
thyroid surgery on September 10, 1969. A hara, white mass measuring about 8 mm, in diameter was
tuund in the rignt upper lobe. A frozen section indicated malignancy and a complete thyroidectomy was done. In addition to the nodule just described the
removed thyroid also showed a small focus of white-hard-tissue near the isthmus,
and there was generalized granularity of the remainder of the gland. The patient
was given 12.5 pc. of radioiodine preoperatively, and the malignant nodule was
found to be nonfunctioning based on lack of radioiodine count. Lymph node
involvement was not noted,
POSTOPERATIVE COURSE:

The patient recovered satisfactorily from her operation.
A slightly positive Chvostek sign was noted for several days. The patient was
returned to this Hospital on September 14. During the week here before her
discharge it was found that her serum calcium level was 9.2 mg.%. A thyroid

sean following 350 pc. 131" snowed that the thyroidectomy had been complete except

for one small questionable area 2.4 cm, to right and 3 cm. above the sternal
notch, Her wound healed nicely, and she was discharged on September 22 fit for
travel back to the Marshall Islands,
DIAGNOSIS:
1. Follicular carcinoma of the thyroid.
gland; no lymph node metastasis,

Adenomatous nodules in remainder of

DISCHARGE MEDICATION:

The patient was advised that
it was mandatory that she
continue#taking her thyroid and hormone medication always, The Marshallese
practitioner, Dr. Riklon, who accompanied the patient here will personally supervise the continuation offhis therapy. The patient will be examined again on
the forthcoming medical survey in March 1970,

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