Organising pneumonia as the first manifestation of rheumatoid arthritis

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Hoshino, Chisho ^a   Satoh, Noriyuki ^a   Narita, Masashi ^a   Kikuchi, Akio ^a   Inoue, Minoru ^a  

^a OHTA NISHINOUCHI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCILLAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LEVOFLOXACIN; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISOLONE; RHEUMATOID FACTOR;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG AUSCULTATION; LUNG LAVAGE; MALAISE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSBRONCHIAL BIOPSY;

EID: 79955551790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.11.2010.3558     Document Type: Article

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