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ReviewRheumatology international2023

Complete disappearance of pulmonary rheumatoid nodules after long term rituximab treatment: case report.

Beatriz Frade-Sosa, Ana Belen Azuaga, Virginia Ruiz-Esquide, José A Gómez-Puerta, Raimon Sanmarti

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Review in Rheumatology international, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 47% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pulmonary Rheumatoid Nodules: A Case Report.Respirology case reports · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Beatriz Frade-SosaDepartment of Rheumatology, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5867-8434
Ana Belen AzuagaDepartment of Rheumatology, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Virginia Ruiz-EsquideDepartment of Rheumatology, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-2657-6601
José A Gómez-PuertaDepartment of Rheumatology, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-8177-702X
Raimon SanmartiDepartment of Rheumatology, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. sanmarti@clinic.cat.ORCID 0000-0002-8864-3806
Hospital Clínic de Barcelona · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The natural history of pulmonary rheumatoid nodules in rheumatoid arthritis remains uncertain. We present a case of a patient with rheumatoid arthritis with pulmonary rheumatoid nodules diagnosed while receiving etanercept in whom pulmonary nodules resolved completely after 5 years of rituximab treatment. Rituximab has been evaluated in case series of patients with pulmonary rheumatoid nodules, resulting in most cases in no progression or a reduction in the size of the nodules, although the complete resolution is uncommon probably due to the short follow-up period. Complete disappearance of pulmonary rheumatoid nodules may be expected after long-term treatment with rituximab.

Indexed as

Antirheumatic AgentsArthritis, RheumatoidRheumatoid NoduleEtanerceptHumansRituximabAntirheumatic AgentsEtanerceptRituximabCase reportRheumatoid arthritisRheumatoid noduleRituximabTNF-inhibitors

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PMID36318308
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