Childhood #Sjögren disease (SjD) is a rare disease without widely accepted diagnostic or classification criteria. To fill this gap, members from CARRA Sjogren Workgroup and the International SjD Workgroup created a clinical diagnostic algorithm with three distinct clinical pathways, which represents key clinical presentation in SjD: #parotitis, extraglandular manifestations, and #sicca symptoms. Parotitis (70%) and sica pathways (82%) had the highest sensitivity and extraglandular pathways (52%) had the lowest. This algorithm may provide a useful clinical tool for evaluating #children with SjD-like symptoms.

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