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Revision as of 16:02, 20 August 2012
Template:Search infobox Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Sicca syndrome can be associated with Xerostomia, dryness of the mucus membranes, bilateral parotid enlargement.
Differential Diagnosis
In alphabetical order. [1] [2]
- Chronic hepatobiliary cirrhosis
- Dermatomyostitis
- Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
- Hepatitis
- Hypergammaglobulinemia
- Interstitial Nephritis
- Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis
- Polymyositis
- Primary biliary cirrhosis
- Progresive systemic sclerosis
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Scleroderma
- Thrombocytopenic purpura
- Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia