Abstracts tagged "diagnostic criteria and histopathologic"

Abstract Number: 2672 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2016
Elderly Patients Risk a False Positive Diagnosis of Primary Sjogren’s Syndrome If a Positive Labial Gland Biopsy Is Solely Based on Focus Score
Erlin A. Haacke^1,2, Jolien F. van Nimwegen¹, Martha S. van Ginkel¹, Suzanne Arends¹, Fred K.L. Spijkervet³, Gwenny M. Verstappen¹, Nicole Sillevis Smitt-Kamminga⁴, Arjan Vissink⁵, Frans G.M. Kroese¹, Bert van der Vegt⁶ and Hendrika Bootsma⁷, ¹Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ²Pathology and Medical Biology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ³Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ⁴Opthalmology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ⁵Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ⁶Pathology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands, ⁷Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands, Groningen, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: Primary Sjögren’s syndrome (pSS) is a systemic auto-immune disease affecting the exocrine glands leading to sicca complaints. For the diagnosis of pSS, a positive…