THE PLEURAL AND PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
Authors: A R HORLER, M THOMPSON
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1959)

Article1 December 1959THE PLEURAL AND PULMONARY COMPLICATIONS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITISA. R. HORLER, M.D., M.R.C.P., MALCOLM THOMPSON, M.D., M.R.C.P.A. R. HORLER, M.D., M.R.C.P., MALCOLM THOMPSON, M.D., M.R.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-51-6-1179 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptRheumatoid arthritis has for some time been considered to be a generalized disease involving many tissues and organs in addition to the joints, and the possible occurrence of pulmonary and pleural lesions is compatible with this conception. Occasional references to chest complications in chronic rheumatism are to be found in the early medical literature.1-6These, however, must be treated with reserve, in view of the confusion that existed in the classification of chronic arthritis and the prevalence of tuberculosis at that time, as well as the frequency of hypostatic pneumonia among immobile and debilitated subjects. Such early reports were those...Bibliography1. Fuller HW: On rheumatism, rheumatic gout and sciatica, their pathology, symptoms and treatment, 3rd Ed., 1860, John Churchill, London. Google Scholar2. Charcot JM: Clinical lectures on senile and chronic diseases, translated by W. S. Tuke, Vol. XCV, 1881, The New Sydenham Society, London. Google Scholar3. Bannatyne GA: Rheumatoid arthritis, its pathology, morbid anatomy and treatment, 2nd Ed., 1898, John Wright, Bristol. Google Scholar4. 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