Clinical and laboratory evaluation of sicca complaints: distinctive aspects of primary, secondary and non-Sjogren syndrome.
Fabíola Reis de OliveiraAna Carolina Fragoso MottaCarolina Maria MóduloDenny Marcos GarciaJohn A ChioriniPaulo Louzada JúniorEduardo Melani RochaPublished in: Advances in rheumatology (London, England) (2022)
The diagnosis of SS remains a challenge behind dryness. Up to 31% of the suspected cases had other conditions associated to the symptoms. Histopathological analysis of LSG and SSa determined the diagnostic. Aging in pSS and overlap disease in sSS were responsible for distinct phenotypes and characteristic sub-groups in SS.