Accelerated pulmonary nodulosis and sterile pleural effusion in a patient with psoriatic arthropathy during methotrexate therapy: A case report

Journal of Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-30

  Balbir Gurman, Alexandra ^a   Guralnik, Ludmila ^b,c   Best, Lael Anson ^b,c   Vlodavsky, Eugene ^c,d   Yigla, Mordehai ^c,e   Menahem Nahir, Abraham ^c   Braun Moscovici, Yolanda ^a,c  

^a B Shine Department of Rheumatology   (Israel)

^b Technion Israel Institute of Technology ^*  (Israel)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^d Institute of Pathology   (Israel)

^e Rambam Health Care Campus   (Israel)

Author keywords

Methotrexate; Psoriatic arthropathy; Pulmonary nodulosis; Sterile pleural empyema

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; CARDIOLIPIN; METHOTREXATE; PEPTIDE ANTIBODY; PREDNISONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG NODULE; OPEN LUNG BIOPSY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA EMPYEMA; PLEURA FLUID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIATIC ARTHRITIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; THORACOCENTESIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, PSORIATIC; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHOTREXATE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE PULMONARY NODULES;

EID: 67650311986     PISSN: 10761608     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RHU.0b013e31817de10b     Document Type: Article

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