To cite: Chakradeo K, Buzacott K, Soden M. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2016216967 DESCRIPTION A 57-year-old man presented for review in the rheumatology outpatients clinic. He had a 30-year history of rheumatoid arthritis and was known to be positive for rheumatoid factor and anticitrullinated protein antibodies (anti-CCP antibodies). He had be...

reported that the nodule in Still's disease often resembled that of rheumatic fever histologically; this was based on biopsies of eleven cases compared with 57 with rheumatic fever and 22 with adult rheumatoid arthritis. We now report a small series of six children followed for 3 to 5 years, where multiple small nodules as seen clinically in rheumatic fever were the predominant clinical feature...

Introduction: The aim of the present study was to compare the videolaryngostroboscopic findings between patients with rheumatoid arthritis and vocally healthy controls.   Materials and Methods: This case-control descriptive study was performed on 113 people, including 50 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and 63 controls. The participants were subjected to videolaryngost...

The regression of small rheumatoid nodules was noted in four patients after starting sulphasalazine therapy. This coincided with an improvement in synovitis and also falls in erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C reactive protein (CRP). The relation between the nodule regression and the sulphasalazine therapy is discussed.

1 Voulgari PV, Tsifetaki N, Metafratzi ZM, Zioga A, Acritidis NC, Drosos AA. A single pulmonary rheumatoid nodule masquerading as malignancy. Clin Rheumatol 2005;24:556–9. 2 White DA, Mark EJ. Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Weekly clinicopathological exercise. Case 10-2001. A 53-year-old woman with arthritis and pulmonary nodules. N Engl J Med 2001;344:997–1004. 3 Ost D, Fe...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease with difficulty to diagnose. The association of natural resistance-associated macrophage protein-1 (NRAMP-1) gene polymorphisms with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the aim of this study. Methods: Two hundred individuals who were divided into two groups: RA patients group (100 Patients with RA) and control group: (100 apparently healthy subjects)....

We present a 27-year-old male with multiple nonpainful soft tissue masses over several metacarpals, bilateral elbows, the left wrist, and both knees since the age of 4. Physical exam was significant for firm, nonmobile, nodular growths over the extensor surfaces of bilateral elbows and knees and on the 2nd and 5th metacarpal phalangeal joints. Laboratory studies revealed an unremarkable rheumat...