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Association of histologically proven rheumatoid arthritis with pulmonary sarcoidosis
1Clinique Pneumologique Médico-Chirurgicale, Hôpital de Brabois, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France.
The European Respiratory Journal
|March 1, 1995
Abstract:
The association of rheumatoid arthritis proven by means of synovial biopsy with pulmonary sarcoidosis proven by means of bronchial biopsy, occurred in a 58 year old woman. Corticosteroid therapy resulted in complete resolution of sarcoidosis but only slight improvement of the rheumatoid arthritis, which was secondarily treated with methotrexate with a successful outcome. Only two similar cases have been reported with simultaneous histological proofs of both diseases.