title: [Detection of clinical diagnosis and different symptoms of Sjogren's syndrome by traditional chinese medicine (TCM)]
abstract: OBJECTIVE:To search for the appropriate diagnostic criteria of SS and confirm the differentiation of SS.METHODS:The European di agnostic criteria has been used in clinic work for about two years,and differentiated the symptoms of SS by TCM. The specialty and relationship between them was made an inquiry.RESULTS:The European criteria set for SS offers the clinic work a practical method to correctly classify the patients suspected of having this disorder. It refers to the signs and symptoms caused by the insufficiency of spleen-qi with deficiency of liver-yin and kidney-yin.CONCLUSION:It has been further proved for easy to make up the diagnostic of SS and its treatment using traditional chinese medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery,School of Stomatology,Shanghai Second Medical University.Shanghai 200011, China.
authors.forename: C Q
authors.initials: CQ
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: W L
authors.initials: WL
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.forename: B P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Y M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Ding