Many patients develop rheumatoid nodules during this stage—firm lumps under the skin that typically appear near pressure points like elbows. These nodules serve as visible indicators of disease ...

You'll have joint swelling and pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis before pulmonary nodules develop. Most SPNs show up when patients need a chest X-ray or CT scan for another condition.

The nodules can also be caused by air pollution, fungal infections and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In fact, up to 32 percent of RA patients have lung nodules. Wellness ...

I never had this before. Patients with rheumatoid arthritis can develop rheumatoid nodules, and it is a marker, for example, of more aggressive disease. Sometimes they're small, like the size of a ...

Researchers in Sweden have confirmed that ever having smoked is a strong risk factor for the early development of rheumatoid nodules. Their nested, case–control study found that rheumatoid ...