Sjögren syndrome: comparison of assessments with MR sialography and conventional sialography. 1998

N Ohbayashi, and I Yamada, and N Yoshino, and T Sasaki
Department of Dental Radiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan.

OBJECTIVE To compare the diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance (MR) sialography with that of conventional sialography in the assessment of salivary gland disease in Sjögren syndrome. METHODS Thirty-five patients (32 women, three men; age range, 18-69 years) suspected of having Sjögren syndrome were examined with MR sialography and conventional sialography. Gradient and spin-echo MR sialography was performed with a 1.5-T system. MR sialographic findings were compared with conventional sialographic findings. RESULTS In 31 (89%) patients, the stage of salivary gland disease determined with MR sialography accurately correlated with that determined with conventional sialography. However, the stage at MR sialography was higher in two patients: They had stage I disease but were determined to have stage II disease. In two other patients, the stage at MR sialography was lower: A patient with stage II disease and a patient with stage III disease were determined to have stage I and stage II disease, respectively. The correlation between the stage at conventional sialography and that at MR sialography (P < .001) can be estimated with the following equation: conventional sialographic stage = 0.021 + 0.982 x (MR sialographic stage). Both the sensitivity and the specificity of MR sialography in the diagnosis of Sjögren syndrome were 100%. CONCLUSIONS MR sialography is highly accurate in the evaluation of salivary gland disease in Sjögren syndrome.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008279 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Non-invasive method of demonstrating internal anatomy based on the principle that atomic nuclei in a strong magnetic field absorb pulses of radiofrequency energy and emit them as radiowaves which can be reconstructed into computerized images. The concept includes proton spin tomographic techniques. Chemical Shift Imaging,MR Tomography,MRI Scans,MRI, Functional,Magnetic Resonance Image,Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Functional,Magnetization Transfer Contrast Imaging,NMR Imaging,NMR Tomography,Tomography, NMR,Tomography, Proton Spin,fMRI,Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging,Imaging, Chemical Shift,Proton Spin Tomography,Spin Echo Imaging,Steady-State Free Precession MRI,Tomography, MR,Zeugmatography,Chemical Shift Imagings,Echo Imaging, Spin,Echo Imagings, Spin,Functional MRI,Functional MRIs,Image, Magnetic Resonance,Imaging, Magnetic Resonance,Imaging, NMR,Imaging, Spin Echo,Imagings, Chemical Shift,Imagings, Spin Echo,MRI Scan,MRIs, Functional,Magnetic Resonance Images,Resonance Image, Magnetic,Scan, MRI,Scans, MRI,Shift Imaging, Chemical,Shift Imagings, Chemical,Spin Echo Imagings,Steady State Free Precession MRI
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293 Adolescent A person 13 to 18 years of age. Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D000368 Aged A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available. Elderly
D012680 Sensitivity and Specificity Binary classification measures to assess test results. Sensitivity or recall rate is the proportion of true positives. Specificity is the probability of correctly determining the absence of a condition. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed) Specificity,Sensitivity,Specificity and Sensitivity
D012796 Sialography Radiography of the SALIVARY GLANDS or ducts following injection of contrast medium. Sialographies

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