Table 4.
Patient
No. & sex
Histopathologic diagnoses of thyroid nodules among Marshallese
study populations.
Age at
Surgery
Years post
exposure _
Pathologic
diagnosis
Remarks
Rongelap exposed
21 F
13
10 1/2
Adenomatous nodules
Hyperplasia
69 F
2M
20 M
64 F
33 F
42 F
15
12
18
41
13
13
10 1/2
11
11
jal
12
12
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Papillary carcinoma
Adenomatous nodules
Adenomatous nodules
Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia
Lymph node metastases
Hyperplasia, fibrosis
Papillary hyperplasia
65 F
19 M
13
14
12
14 1/2
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Fibrosis
Hyperplasia
17 F
12
61 F
20
23 M
54
18
36
72
15
75
M
F
M
F
F
F
40
83
74
37
66
M
M
F
M
F
85 M
19
14
34
21
20
22, 32
24
10 1/2
12
14 1/2
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodules
Adenomatous nodule
14 1/2
15 1/2
15 1/2
15 1/2
15 1/2,25
18 1/2
Adenomatous nodule
Papillary carcinoma
Adenomatous nodules
Papillary carcinoma
Adenomatous nodules
Adenomatous nodules
with follicular
46
24
34
45
54
19
20
22
23 1/2
25 1/2
No diagnostic lesion
Adenomatous nodule
Papillary carcinoma
No diagnostic lesion
Adenomatous nodule
25
25 1/2
Adenomatous nodules
adenoma
Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia
Lymph node metastases
Fibrosis
Focal hypercellularity
Papillary hyperplasia,
fibrosis
Ailingnae exposed
59 F
8 F
53
18
12
18
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
45 F
51 F
53 F
45
45
33
19
20
27
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodule
Adenomatous nodules
with occult
papillary carcinoma
ee
Geos du
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Hyperplasia
Hyperplasia, focal
atypia
Fibrosis