Abstract
A man of 74 who had had seropositive rheumatoid arthritis for 10 years presented with dyspnoea and reticular striation in both lung fields. At necropsy two years later there was pulmonary fibrosis with multiple rheumatoid nodules and non-specific granulomas.
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