Case 13-2008: A 46-year-old man with rheumatoid arthritis and lymphadenopathy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 358, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 1838-

  Munshi, Nikhil C ^a,c   Digumarthy, Subba ^b,c   Rahemtullah, Aliyah ^b,c  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; FOLIC ACID; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; LEFLUNOMIDE; LEVOFLOXACIN; MELOXICAM; METHOTREXATE; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; NYSTATIN; PANTOPRAZOLE; PREDNISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOFOLLICULAR LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW BIOPSY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HEAVY CHAIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG FIBROSIS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MONOCLONAL IMMUNOGLOBULINEMIA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SKIN DEFECT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THRUSH; BLOOD; BONE MARROW; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; LUNG; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; PATHOLOGY; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; RADIOGRAPHY; SPLEEN; URINE;

ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BLOOD PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; BONE MARROW; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEAVY CHAIN DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GAMMA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; LUNG; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC DISEASES; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; SPLEEN;

EID: 42549115872     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc0800959     Document Type: Article

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