Usefulness of magnetic resonance sialography in patients with juvenile Sjögren's syndrome.

Ultrasonography of salivary glands in primary Sjogren's syndrome. A comparison with magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance sialography of parotid glands.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate ultrasonography (US) of salivary glands in primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS) and to compare US with parotid magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and MR sialography. METHODS US examination of parotid, submandibular and sublingual glands was performed on 27 patients with primary SS, 27 healthy controls and 27 symptomatic controls without SS. The results were compared with paroti...

Sonography as a replacement for sialography for the diagnosis of salivary glands affected by Sjögren's syndrome.

LETTERS Sonography as a replacement for sialography for the diagnosis of salivary glands affected by Sjögren's syndrome Recently, it has been suggested that sono-graphic evaluation of the salivary glands is useful in the diagnosis of Sjögren's syndrome. Kawamura et al and, more recently, Ariji et al, showed that descriptive and quantitative assessment of the salivary glands by sonogra-phy effic...

The usefulness of ultrasound in the diagnostics of Sjögren’s syndrome

Sjögren's syndrome is an autoimmune exocrinopathy which manifests itself with dryness of the eyes and the oral cavity. These symptoms comprise a so-called sicca syndrome (xerostomia and xerophthalmia). Two forms of this disease may be distinguished: primary Sjögren's syndrome which affects salivary glands and secondary Sjögren's syndrome with other autoimmune diseases present such as rheumatoid...

Salivary gland ultrasonography: can it be an alternative to sialography as an imaging modality for Sjogren's syndrome?

OBJECTIVES Salivary ultrasonography (US) was evaluated as an alternative imaging modality to sialography for Sjögren's syndrome (SS). METHODS Parotid sialography and parotid and submandibular US were performed in 360 patients (188 with SS and 172 non-SS) who were suspected of SS and had fulfilled the American-European criteria (AEC) for SS or had received > or =3 of the objective examinations...

Comment on: Diagnostic accuracies of sialography and salivary ultrasonography in Sjögren's syndrome patients: a meta-analysis. by Song and Lee (2014).