Tongue Atrophy in Sjögren Syndrome Patients with Mucosa-associated Lymphoid Tissue Lymphoma: Autoimmune Epithelitis beyond the Epithelial Cells of Salivary Glands?

Evangelia ZampeliEleni-Marina KalogirouEvangelia PiperiClio P MavraganiHaralampos M Moutsopoulos

Published in: The Journal of rheumatology (2018)

These results suggest that pSS patients with lymphoid malignancy exhibit a more atrophic and more fissured tongue. This particular clinical tongue appearance can serve as an additional clinical sign for salivary MALT lymphoma in pSS patients.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
diffuse large b cell lymphoma
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
peritoneal dialysis
multiple sclerosis
prognostic factors
rheumatoid arthritis
case report