Intrathoracic Lymphadenopathy – A Rare Manifestation of Rheumatoid Pulmonary...
Pleuropulmonary manifestations of RA are frequently seen as is peripheral lymphadenopathy. Thoracic lymphadenopathy, however, rarely has been documented and mostly in autopsy studies of patients with...
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Physical examination revealed marked respiratory distress with a respiratory rate of 40 breaths per minute and pulse rate of 120 beats per minute. Chest examination revealed diffuse crackles. The...
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Microscopic examination of the lung biopsy specimen demonstrated that many alveoli were destroyed and replaced by fibrous tissue leaving irregular air spaces lined by cuboidal epithelial cells and...
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Nosan-chuk and Schnitzer reviewed the histologic studies of thoracic nodes in 21 patients dying of RA noting an abundance of plasma cells in the interfollicular zone of the nodes removed at autopsy....
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A small number of silica fibers were found within the nodal tissue but not within the lung parenchyma. We do not feel that the large thoracic adenopathy in this case was due to silica, however, since...
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