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Middle lobe syndrome as the pulmonary manifestation of primary Sjögrenˈs syndrome
Author(s) -
Chen HorngAn,
Lai ShinnLiang,
Kwang WeiKang,
Liu JuhnCherng,
Chen ChunHsiung,
Huang DeFeng
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00242.x
Subject(s) - general hospital , medicine , university hospital , china , family medicine , gerontology , law , political science
Middle lobe syndrome - recurrent atelectasis and/or bronchiectasis involving the right middle lobe and/or lingula - has, up to now, not been reported as the pulmonary manifestation of primary Sjögren's syndrome. We describe a patient in whom lymphocytic bronchiolitis in the atelectatic lobes was proved histologically from two separate transbronchial biopsies. The atelectasis responded well to glucocorticoid treatment, suggesting that the peribronchiolar lymphocytic infiltrates may have played an important role in the development of middle lobe syndrome in this patient.