Difference between revisions of "Sjögren syndrome"

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It is based on assessing 4 mm<sup>2</sup> area of salivary gland tissue and depends on the abundance and aggregation of lymphocytes as follows:<ref>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Chisholm | first1 = DM. | last2 = Mason | first2 = DK. | title = Labial salivary gland biopsy in Sjögren's disease. | journal = J Clin Pathol | volume = 21 | issue = 5 | pages = 656-60 | month = Sep | year = 1968 | doi =  | PMID = 5697370 | PMC = 473887 | url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC473887/?tool=pubmed }}</ref>
It is based on assessing 4 mm<sup>2</sup> area of salivary gland tissue and depends on the abundance and aggregation of lymphocytes as follows:<ref>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Chisholm | first1 = DM. | last2 = Mason | first2 = DK. | title = Labial salivary gland biopsy in Sjögren's disease. | journal = J Clin Pathol | volume = 21 | issue = 5 | pages = 656-60 | month = Sep | year = 1968 | doi =  | PMID = 5697370 | PMC = 473887 | url = http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC473887/?tool=pubmed }}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable"  
{| class="wikitable sortable" align=left
!Grade  
!Chisholm-Mason <br>grade  
!Lymphocytes
!Lymphocytes
!Focus score
|-
|-
| 0  
| 0  
| absent
| absent
| 0
|-
|-
| 1  
| 1  
| slight infiltrate
| slight infiltrate
| 0
|-
|-
| 2
| 2
| moderate infiltrate or less than one focus †  
| moderate infiltrate or less than one focus †  
| 0
|-
|-
| 3
| 3
| one focus †
| one focus †
| 1
|-
|-
| 4
| 4
| more than one focus †
| more than one focus †
| >1
|}
|}
† Focus = aggregrate of 50 lymphocytes.
† Focus = aggregrate of 50 lymphocytes.
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