Unusual onset of rheumatoid arthritis with diffuse pulmonary nodulosis: a diagnostic problem

J Rheumatol. 1999 Apr;26(4):920-2.

Abstract

We describe a case of a 50-year-old woman presenting articular manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis associated with severe interstitial lung involvement related to multiple pulmonary nodules. Diagnosis of diffuse pulmonary rheumatoid nodulitis was made only after video assisted thoracoscopic lung biopsies.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Biopsy
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung / pathology
  • Lung Diseases / complications
  • Lung Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Lung Diseases / drug therapy
  • Methotrexate / therapeutic use
  • Middle Aged
  • Prednisone / therapeutic use
  • Rheumatoid Nodule / complications
  • Rheumatoid Nodule / diagnosis*
  • Rheumatoid Nodule / drug therapy
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Prednisone
  • Methotrexate