Journal of the Dow University of Health Sciences (Apr 2007)

Sjogren's Syndrome

  • Pyar Ali Fazel,
  • Karim ullah Makki,
  • Hussain Haroon,
  • Saira Sheikh

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1

Abstract

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Sjogen's syndrome is an autoimmune and a chronic inflammatory disorder characterized by the infilrration of the exocrine glands particulary the lacrimal and the salivary glands by the lymphocytes and the plasma cells resulting in xerostomia and xerophthalamia.

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