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Comparison of the American-European Consensus Group Sjögren's syndrome classification criteria to newly proposed American College of Rheumatology criteria in a large, carefully characterised sicca cohort
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- Published on: 18 December 2013
- Published on: 18 December 2013The classification criteria for Sjogren's syndrome: issues for their improvement from the study of a large Italian cohort of patientsShow More
Dear Editor,
we read with great interest the article by Rasmussen et al. [1] which compared the performance of the new ACR [2] and the AECG [3] classification criteria for Sjogren's syndrome (SS) showing that they led to similar results when applied to a well-characterized cohort of patients with sicca symptoms. More specifically, no clear evidence for an increased value of the new ACR criteria [2] over the old AEC...
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