These nodules usually occur in joints that experience trauma, such as the finger knuckles. They are typically firm and rarely painful. Rheumatoid nodules are usually harmless unless they interfere ...

Subcutaneous nodules occur ... arthritis that involved all peripheral joints. Many nodules were palpable over both elbows, the dorsum of the fingers, the occiput and both ischial tuberosities.

Subcutaneous nodules in rheumatic fever are firm, painless lesions that appear under the skin covering joints. Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory condition that can affect the joints, heart ...

Methotrexate (a common treatment for RA) can lead to this condition, which causes small nodules to form quickly around your finger joints. If that happens, your doctor will often switch you to ...

Examination at this hospital in February, 1958, revealed symmetric swelling of the proximal finger joints and a subcutaneous nodule over the left elbow. Excisional biopsy confirmed that the nodule ...

Digital mucous cysts (synovial cysts or myxoid pseudocysts) are found most commonly on the terminal digits of the fingers ... of mucin from the joint to the nodule. Proponents of this theory ...

A 67-year-old man presents with 2 nodules on his elbow. He has never had any skin conditions but 2 years previously was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, which he manages with methotrexate and ...

Physical examination revealed swelling and tenderness in both wrists and in many metacarpophalangeal joints, numerous small tophi in the subcutaneous tissue of the palmar aspect of her fingers ...