Abstracts tagged "Sjögren’s Syndrome"

Abstract Number: 1252 • ACR Convergence 2020
Ultrasound-guided Parotid Gland Biopsy in Cadavers Performed by Rheumatologists – an OMERACT Ultrasound Working Group Study
Nevsun Inanc¹, Sandrine Jousse-Joulin², Kerem Abacar³, Leyla Cinel⁴, Maria D’Agostino⁵, Esperanza Naredo⁶, Alojzija Hocevar⁷, Stephanie Finzel⁸, Lene Terslev⁹, Annamaria Iagnocco¹⁰, Petra Hanova¹¹, Wolfgang Schmidt¹², Gonca Mumcu¹³, Ümit S. Şehirli¹⁴ and George A. Bruyn¹⁵, ¹Marmara University, School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, istanbul, Turkey, ²Rheumatology Department, Cavale Blanche Hospital and Brest Occidentale University, Brest, France, ³Marmara University, School of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁴Marmara University, School of Medicine, Division of Pathology, Istanbul, Turkey, ⁵Université Versailles Saint Quentin, Ambroise Paré Hospital, Paris, France, ⁶Department of Rheumatology, Joint and Bone Research Unit. Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, IIS Fundación Jiménez Díaz and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, ⁷University Medical Center, Rheumatology, Ljubljana, LJUBLJANA, Slovenia, ⁸Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Klinik für Rheumatologie und Klinische Immunologie, Freiburg, Germany, ⁹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup., Copenhagen, Denmark, ¹⁰Università degli Studi di Torino, Academic Rheumatology Centre, Turin, Italy, ¹¹Institute of Rheumatology, Prague, Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, ¹²Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Medical Center for Rheumatology Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany, ¹³Marmara University School of Health Sciences, Health Management, Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, ¹⁴Marmara University, School of Medicine, Anatomy, Istanbul, Turkey, ¹⁵Rheumatology, Reumakliniek Lelystad, Lelystad, Netherlands
Background/Purpose: With the diagnostic capability of the parotid gland biopsy similar to minor salivary gland biopsy in Sjögren’s syndrome, the parotid gland biopsy may also…