[Bilateral epibulbar rheumatoid nodulosis: case report].
A 64-year-old woman with a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis developed painless bilateral episcleral rheumatoid nodules without any flare-up of her associated disease. Biopsy of the lesions disclosed a lymphocytic and plasmacytic infiltration within the conjunctiva, overlying palisading granulomas with multinucleated giant cells, and central necrobiotic degeneration of the collagen of the episclera and superficial sclera. The rheumatologic designation for the development of groups of nodules in inactive rheumatoid arthritis is rheumatoid nodulosis.
Santos
Namir Clementino
NC
Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil. namirsantos@ig.com.br
de Sousa
Luciene Barbosa
LB
Trevisani
Virginia Fernandes Moça
VF
Rigueiro
Moacyr Pezzati
MP
de Freitas
Denise
D
D018501:Antirheumatic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003520:Cyclophosphamide / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012218:Rheumatoid Nodule / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D015423:Scleritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy
D018501:Antirheumatic Agents; D003520:Cyclophosphamide