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Thyroid Abnormalities in Exposed Rongelap People, 1968
(arranged in order of appearance of abnormality)
Subject No.
and sex
Present
age,yr.
3M
15
Age at
exposure,yr.
1
Time of
Development
Year Age,yr.
1965
12
Findings
Hypothyroid, PBI <2yg% March 1965; re-
tardation of growth preceded these findings
by a number of years.
3/68 growth spurt
and improved appearance on thyroixine.
5
M
15
1
1965
12
Hypothyroid, PBI <2ug% March 1965; retardation of growth preceded these findings
by a number of years.
3/68 growth spurt
and improved appearance on thyroxine.
17
=F
17
21
sF
17
69
F
18
3
1963
12
Adenomatous goiter; total thyroidectomy,
3 .-
1964
13
Adenomatous goiter; total thyroidectomy,
4
1964
14
Adenomatous goiter; partial thyroidectony,
1964.
No recurrence.
parathyroidectomy, 1964.
1964.
,
No recurrence.
1968 slight roughening right lobe
persists.
2M
15
1
1965 '. 12
Adenomatous goiter, partial thyroidectomy,
20 <M
21
7
1965
Adenomatous goiter, partial thyroidectomy,
7
64 F
K
Le
—
44
——-
30
18
1965
41
——-__—____.
72 .F
—
20
6
1965
17.
42 \F
17
3
1965
14
1965.
1965.
No recurrence.
No recurrence.
Mixed papillary and follicular carcinoma,
total thyroidectomy-surgical and therapeut
radioiodine, 1965. No recurrence.
+=‘Three-mm nodule left lobe.
_ palpable 9/66.
Nodule not
Two-mm nodule right lower lobe.
3/66
nodular enlargement (~14 X normal)entire
gland;
firm 5-mm nodule right lobe.
7/66 subtotal thyroidectomy:
goiter.
adenomatous