BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY
| NAME
UNITNO.
8-18-90 R
HOSPITAL of the MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER
UPTON,
NEW
YORK
DISCHARGE SUMMARY
PAVILION
1
OPD
a
Other:
Chest x-ray and EKG negative. Other laboratory findings were negative
except for a few WBC in the urine and the presence of the whipworm parasites
in the feces.
HOSPITAL COURSE:
Bo Not Write In Binding Margin
and Dr. B. Colcock of the Lahey Clinic.
A consultation was held with Drs.
JE. Rall and J. Robbins of NIH
The consensus waa that the diseased
thyroid tissue should be surgically removed. The patient was transferred to the
New England Baptist Hospital in Boston August 18, Dr. B. Coleock carried out
a subtotal thyroidectomy removing thyroid tissue containing many nodules and
cysts. Dr. W.A. Meissner of the New England Deaconess Hospital examined the
tissues and his pathological diagnosis was "adenomatous goiter" and a nodule
of oxyphilic cells. Recovery from surgery vas uneventful and the patient
was transferred back to this hospital on August 25. He was placed on thyroid
hormone therapy. He remained asymptomatic with satisfactory healing of the
surgical wound and was discharged to return to his home in the Marshall Islands
on August 30, 1968.
FINAL DIAGNOSIS:
DISCHARGE MEDICATION:
Adenomatous goiter with nodule of
oxyphilic cells.
;
To continue thyroid hormone therapy
for life, A letter was sent to
the Marshallese practitioner in charge of this patient stressing the importance
of continued thyroid hormone treatment.
Robert A. Conard, M.D.
RAC :mam
Dict: 9-13-68
Typed: 9-16-68
ONL 720A
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