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CAPLAN, Anthony

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1953 CE

#11839

Certain unusual radiological appearances in the chest of coal-miners suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.

Caplan's syndrome, originally identified in coal miners with progressive massive fibrosis. It is a combination of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and pneumoconiosis that manifests as intrapulmonary nodules, which appear hom…