Prevalence of Sjogren's syndrome in a closed rural community

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 521-525

  Dafni, Urania G ^a,b   Tzioufas, Athanasios G ^a   Staikos, Panayiotis ^a   Skopouli, Fotini N ^c   Moutsopoulos, Haralampos M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^c Health Centre of Astakos   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DRY EYE; FEMALE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; SALIVATION; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; XEROSTOMIA; ADOLESCENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GREECE; HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RURAL HEALTH; SJOGREN'S SYNDROME;

EID: 0030613776     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.56.9.521     Document Type: Article

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