作者
Claudio Vitali, Stefano Bombardieri, Haralampos M Moutsopoulos, Genesio Balestrieri, Walter Bencivelli, Robert M Bernstein, Kirsten B Bjerrum, Susanna Braga, Joaquin Coll, Salvatore De Vita, Alexandros A Drosos, Michael Ehrenfeld, Pierre Y Hatron, Elaine M Hay, David A Isenberg, Anne Janin, Joachim R Kalden, Louis Kater, Yrjö T Konttinen, Peter J Maddison, Ravinder N Maini, Rolf Manthorpe, Olivier Meyer, Pierantonio Ostuni, Yvon Pennec, Jan U Prause, Andrea Richards, Bernard Sauvezie, Morten Schiødt, Maria Sciuto, Crispian Scully, Yehuda Shoenfeld, Fotini N Skopouli, Josef S Smolen, Michael L Snaith, Moshe Tishler, Silvano Todesco, Guido Valesini, Patrick JW Venables, Marie J Wattiaux, Pierre Youinou
发表日期
1993/3
期刊
Arthritis & Rheumatism: Official Journal of the American College of Rheumatology
卷号
36
期号
3
页码范围
340-347
出版商
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
简介
Objective. Different sets of diagnostic criteria have been proposed for Sjögren's syndrome (SS), but none have been validated with a large series of patients or in a multicenter study. We conducted the present study involving 26 centers from 12 countries (11 in Europe, plus Israel), with the goals of reaching a consensus on the diagnostic procedures for SS and defining classification criteria to be used in epidemiologic surveys and adopted by the scientific community.
Methods. The study protocol was subdivided into two parts. For part I, questionnaires regarding both ocular and oral involvement were developed; they included 13 questions and 7 questions, respectively. For part II a limited set of diagnostic tests was selected, and the exact procedure to be followed in performing these tests was defined. Part I of the study ipcluded 240 patients with primary SS and 240 age-and sex-matched controls. Two hundred forty …
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