title: Atypical mycobacterial infection of the lung in rheumatoid arthritis.
abstract: Mycobacterium kansasii was isolated from a cavitating pneumonia found in a 51 year old man with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis, and treatment was complicated by drug induced neuropathy.
authors.affiliation: Medical Unit, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool.
authors.forename: S W
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Watkin
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Bucknall
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nisar
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Agnew
mesh_terms: D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009165:Mycobacterium Infections, Nontuberculous / Q000150:complications; D011859:Radiography; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging