Progressive cavitating pulmonary changes in rheumatoid arthritis: a case report.
Progressive cavitating changes in the lung apices were found in a middle-aged man with seropositive rheumatoid arthritis. These findings were attributed at autopsy to a combination of nodule-type formation, necrosis, and mild fibrosis.
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