Dry eyes and mouth syndrome--a subgroup of patients presenting with sicca symptoms
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Clinical follow up study of 87 patients with sicca symptoms (dryness of eyes or mouth, or both).
OBJECTIVE To assess the prognosis of patients with sicca symptoms and to identify the clinical and immunological factors that most sensitively predict the later development of primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS) or other connective tissue diseases. METHODS Eighty seven patients (72 female, 15 male) with sicca symptoms were re-evaluated after a median follow up time of 11 years (range 8-17). The c...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rheumatology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 1460-2172
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/41.4.416