Sjögren’s Syndrome || Diagnostic Procedures (II): Parotid Scintigraphy, Parotid Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance, Salivary Gland Biopsy

✍ Scribed by Ramos-Casals, Manuel; Stone, John H.; Moutsopoulos, Haralampos M.

• Book ID: 127190824
• Publisher: Springer London
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 694 KB
• Edition: 2
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0857299476
• DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-947-5_27

✦ Synopsis

Sjögren’s Syndrome: Diagnosis and Therapeutics provides a thorough, multisystemic overview of the clinical manifestations of Sjögren’s Syndrome. It contains chapters pertinent across the range of medical specialties that may encounter Sjögren’s Syndrome cases. Chapters are specialty-specific, for easy reference by the relevant medical specialist. In addition to being a diagnostic guide, Sjögren’s Syndrome: Diagnosis and Therapeutics  includes a section on prognosis and outcomes of Sjögren’s Syndrome patients and provides an exhaustive therapeutic update, focused on new agents and experimental techniques. The inclusion of diagnostic/therapeutic algorithms illustrates the text with clinical photographs of the main organs involved and helps the reader to make guided diagnostic and therapeutic decisions through decision-based algorithms.