Magnetic resonance applied to the diagnosis of Sjogren disease

Bujía, J.; Grevers, G.; Vogl, T.

Anales Otorrinolaringologicos Ibero-Americanos 21(2): 129-138

1994


ISSN/ISBN: 0303-8874
PMID: 8209965
Document Number: 424594
In order to characterize typical MRI-findings in patients with Sjögren's syndrome who present recurrent parotid swelling 15 patients with clinical diagnosis of this disease were examined in a prospectives study. Most of the patients showed bilateral enlarged glands with an inhomogeneous, nodular pattern. The signal intensity was very high, especially in the T2 weighted sequences.

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