Sjogren's Syndrome, Especially Its Non-Ocular Features

CHRONIC inflammatory changes in the parotid glands, usually without superadded abscess-formation but with recurrent exacer- bations, leading to permanent changes in the glands in question -enlargement, sclerosis, atrophy, in irregular combination- is sometimes associated with similar changes in the other salivary glands, -and more or less dryness of the mouth, also with similar chronic inflammatory changes in the lacrimal glands-though usually without obvious clinical enlargement-and with kerato- -conjunctivitis sicca.Starting from the ocular side Henrik Sj6gren *