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Indian J Chest Dis Allied Sci
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1989 Jul-Sep; 31(3): 217-20
Artigo
em Inglês
| IMSEAR
| ID: sea-29964
RESUMO
A 49-year-old male patient, an active case of sero positive rheumatoid arthritis involving multiple joints with bilateral necrobiotic pulmonary nodules is presented. Initial symptoms were of progressively increasing dyspnoea. The nodule in the right lung subsequently cavitated leading to pyopneumothorax. The diagnosis of rheumatoid lung was confirmed by post-mortem.