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.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) commonly causes joint pain ... Most commonly, skin manifestations will present as rheumatoid nodules. These are not a rash but hard lumps that form directly under ...

What's going on with my skin? 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 ...