RHEUMATOID LYMPHADENOPATHY
RHEUMATOID LYMPHADENOPATHY
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DOI:
10.1136/ard.27.3.253
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发表时间:
1968-01-01
影响因子:
27.4
通讯作者:
BOARDMAN, PL
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作者:
ROBERTSON, MD;HART, FD;BOARDMAN, PL
Chauffard and Ramond (1896) are credited with the first description of lymphadenopathy occurring in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. The associa-tion has been confirmed by others (McCrae, 1904; Waterhouse, 1908; Coates and Delicati, 1931; Parkes Weber, 1944; Rotes-Querol and Ciscar Ruis, 1948; Motulsky, Weinberg, Saphir, and Rosenberg, 1952; Feldman, 1961; Makarenko, 1965), and has become generally accepted. Although lymphadenopathy is considered to be an intrinsic feature of Still's disease and Felty's syndrome, there is no general agreement as to its significance in rheuma-toid arthritis as a whole. Short, Bauer, and Reynolds (1957), in their classic study of the clinical features of rheumatoid arthritis, found that the incidence of lymphadenopathy varied from 19 to 96 per cent. in reports published at that time. In their own series of 86 patients, 29-4 per cent. had significant lymph node enlargement compared with 8-9 per cent. of 26 control subjects. They noted a higher incidence in males, butcould find no correlation with disease activity, type of onset, or subsequent course of the disease, and they made no attempt to define the sizes of lymph nodes which were signifificant, or to correlate lymphadenopathy with dura-tion of disease and local joint activity. Lymphangiography has been performed on patients with rheumatoid disease, but there is no general agreement on what constitutes the typical appearances or what their significance is (Malek, Belan, Kriegel, and Kolc, 1960; Lucherini, Bom-piani, Porzio, and Spina, 1965; Michotte and van Bogaert, 1966; Wiljasalo, Julkunen, and Salven, 1966).