Thyroid Nodules as a Late Sequela of Radioactive Fallout
- 23 June 1966
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 274 (25) , 1391-1399
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196606232742501
Abstract
NODULES of the thyroid gland have been discovered during the past three years in a number of people of Rongelap Island who had been accidentally exposed to radioactive fallout in 1954. The accident was the result of an unpredicted shift in winds after the experimental detonation of a large thermonuclear device at Bikini in the Marshall Islands, which caused radioactive fallout to be deposited on 4 inhabited Marshall Islands to the east. Inhabitants of Rongelap Atoll, about 100 miles away, received the largest amount of fallout. The somatic effects of this radiation have been well documented in a number of . . .Keywords
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