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Pulmonary Involvement

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Isolated cases of lung involvement in Sjögren’s syndrome (SS) were first reported in the early 60s [1]. Since then an extensive number of reports have attempted to characterize lung involvement, often with conflicting data. Principally interstitial [2–5] to mixed [6, 7] or purely obstructive respiratory patterns [8] have been described, with frequencies that range from 9% to 75% [3, 4].

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Mavragani, C.P., Tzelepis, G.E., Moutsopoulos, H.M. (2011). Pulmonary Involvement. In: Ramos-Casals, M., Stone, J., Moutsopoulos, H. (eds) Sjögren’s Syndrome. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-947-5_14

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