A 21 -year-old singer with perennial allergies and reflux disease came to us with a l-year history of reduced range and a raspy speaking voice. On initial examination, she exhibited moderate vocal fold edema and erythema. She was prescribed a proton-pump inhibitor and an H2 blocker. A pH probe

Necrobiotic lung nodules and primary lung carcinoma both occur with some frequency in patients with rheumatoid arthritis; however, few reports exist of a primary lung carcinoma occurring within a rheumatoid nodule. We report a case of a 62-year-old woman with multiple pulmonary nodules discovered

VIENNA -- Early rheumatoid nodules, pulmonary involvement, and malaise with weight loss are predictive...ratio of 4.3, she said. Marked malaise with weight loss and rheumatoid nodules also were associated with increased risk of mortality, with...

VIENNA -- Early rheumatoid nodules, pulmonary involvement, and malaise with weight loss are predictive...ratio of 4.3, she said. Marked malaise with weight loss and rheumatoid nodules also were associated with increased risk of mortality, with...

...Rather, the lesions were likely rheumatoid nodules. Longstanding rheumatoid arthritis...commonly causes granulomalike rheumatoid nodules. I did a PubMed search using...pathologic findings represented rheumatoid nodules. The inability to stain or...

...or older than 40. Subcutaneous lesions may mimic rheumatoid nodules; however, arthritis is absent, and the test for...annulare and diabetes, necrobiotic granuloma, and rheumatoid nodules has been debated (24, 25). Granuloma annulare may...

...skin sores and small lumps under the skin called rheumatoid nodules. Although not the most common type of arthritis...on both sides of the body at the same time. (5) Rheumatoid nodules -- lumps under the skin that tend to be near a...

...pulmonary metastases as well as rheumatoid nodules. However, the rapid progression...syndrome favored diagnosis of rheumatoid nodules. This was confirmed pathologically...decrease in size and number of rheumatoid nodules. Pulmonary involvement in rheumatoid...

...sides of the body (symmetrical) are usually affected, especially the hands, wrists, elbows, feet, knees or neck. Rheumatoid nodules ranging in size from a pea to a mothball develop in nearly one-third of people who have rheumatoid arthritis. These...

...morning stiffness, (2) arthritis of 3 or more joints, (3) arthritis of the hand joints, (4) symmetric arthritis, (5) rheumatoid nodules, (6) serum rheumatoid factor, or (7) radiologic changes. (4) A classification of functional capacity frequently...