Reliability Exercise of Ultrasound Salivary Glands in Sjögren's Disease: An International Web Training Initiative.
Baptiste QuéréAlain SarauxGuillermo Carvajal-AlegriaDewi GuellecGaël MouterdeChristophe LamotteDaniel HammenforsMalin JonssonSung-Eun ChoiMin Hong-KiAlja StelBenjamin A FisherMark MayburyBenedikt HofauerFrancesco FerroVera MilicDana DirenzoValérie Devauchelle-PensecSandrine Jousse-JoulinPublished in: Rheumatology and therapy (2024)
Videoconferencing training sessions in an international reliability exercise could be an excellent tool to train experienced and less-experienced sonographers. SGUS homogeneity items is useful to distinguish normal from abnormal salivary glands parenchyma independently of diagnosis. Structural damage evaluations by OMERACT scoring system is a new comprehensive score to diagnose patients with SD and could be easily used by sonographers in a binary method.