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Appendix IV
THYROID TABLES
Table 1.
Individual listing of thyroid abnormalities in Marshallese, i980.
This does not include cases with indiscrete thyroid masses.*
Under “Hypofunction," two TSH levels >6 pU/dl were considered positive, except
that in presurgical cases one such level was considered positive because only
one or a few samples were available for testing; two levels >3 were considered
suggestive. Ca = carcinoma.
Est.
Pt. No.
& sex
Age
1979
thyroid
dose
(rads)
Thyroid Nodularities
Age at
detection
Surgery
Diagnosis
(a) Rongelap exposed at age <10 (includes 2 in utero:
3M
5M
33 F
54M
65 F
2M
17 F
19 M
21
42
23
69
F
F
M
F
72 F
26
26
26
26
26
27
28
30
28
28
29
29
31
15 F
20 M
36 M
32
32
32
32 M
83. M
85 M
28
25
25
61 F
33
Hypofunction
TSH CyU/d1)
No. 83 and 85)
1150
1150
1150
1150
1150
1100
1050
1000
1050
1050
1000
1000
900
855
855
855
810
1050
?
?
>400( myxedema )
13
13
13
12
12
14
13
13
19
15
14
Bost. ‘66
Bost. '68
Bost. ‘66
Bost. ‘65
Guam '64
Bost. ‘68
Guam
Bost.
Bost.
Guam
'64
'66
‘68
64
Cleve. '69
Adenomatous nod.
"
"
"
“
"
"
"
"
"
"
Papillary Ca
"
"
"
"
“
"
"
"
17
18
21
Cleve. '69'79
Bost. ‘65
Cleve. '69
Adenomatous nod.
"
"
"
"
28
24
25
Cleve. '74
Cleve. '79
"
"
Hvperpl. nodule
20
Z3ost.
'66
"
"
"
22
"
22
6.2, 8.2
470
4.9
4.7
5.2, 6.7
6.7, 7.3
(b) Rongelap exposed at age 10-18
75 F
40
655
24
Cleve. ‘72
Adenoma
74 F
40
425
- 32
Cleve. '76
Papillary Ca
67 F
38
520
24
Nodules '74
*Three cases (2 exposed and 1 control) are not included in the table since nodules palpated clinically did not reveal demonstrable pathology at surgery.
(See Table 3).
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