Cutaneous vasculitis in primary Sjögren syndrome: classification and clinical significance of 52 patients

To analyze the different clinical and histologic types of cutaneous vasculitis in patients with primary Sjo¨gren syndrome (SS), we investigated the clinical and immunologic characteristics of 558 consecutive patients with primary SS from our units and selected those with clinical evidence of cutaneo...

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2004
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Universidad del Rosario
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Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
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eng
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oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/27458
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https://doi.org/10.1097/01.md.0000119465.24818.98
https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/27458
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Sjögren syndrome (SS)
Cutaneous lesions
Cutaneous vasculitis
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Summary:To analyze the different clinical and histologic types of cutaneous vasculitis in patients with primary Sjo¨gren syndrome (SS), we investigated the clinical and immunologic characteristics of 558 consecutive patients with primary SS from our units and selected those with clinical evidence of cutaneous lesions, excluding drug reactions and xeroderma. All patients fulfilled 4 or more of the diagnostic criteria for SS proposed by the European Community Study Group in 1993. A total of 89 (16%) patients presented with cutaneous involvement (88 female patients and 1 male; mean age, 51.8 yr)