What is the best salivary gland ultrasonography scoring methods for the diagnosis of primary or secondary Sjögren's syndromes?

Martel, Amélie
Coiffier, Guillaume
Bleuzen, Aurore
Goasguen, Jean,
De Bandt, Michel
Deligny, Christophe
Magnant, Julie
Ferreira, Nicole
Diot, Elisabeth
Perdriger, Aleth
Maillot, Francois

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Publication date

March 2019

DOI

10.1016/j.jbspin.2018.06.014

Publisher

Elsevier BV

ISSN

1297-319X

Abstract

International audienceObjective: To evaluate the performance of salivary gland ultrasonography for the diagnosis of primary and secondary Sjögren's syndromes (pSS and sSS).Method: Multicenter cross-sectional study on 97 patients with clinical sicca symptoms. The pSS (n = 39) and the sSS (n = 22) met the American-European Consensus Group (AECG) classification criteria. The control patients (n = 36) with sicca symptoms did not fulfill the AECG criteria. Four scores were used to evaluate the 4 major salivary gland echostructure: the Salaffi score (0-16), Jousse-Joulin score (0-4), Hocevar score (0-48) and Milic score (0-12).Results: The medians of ultrasonographic (US) scores were higher in the pSS and sSS groups than in the control group (p <...