Atypical mycobacterial infection of the lung in rheumatoid arthritis.
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.
Watkin
S W
SW
Medical Unit, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool.
Bucknall
R C
RC
Nisar
M
M
Agnew
R A
RA
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