[The clinical and diagnostic characteristics of Sjögren's syndrome (disease) and of nonspecific chronic sialoadenitis].

Analysis of clinical and laboratory parameters of nonspecific chronic sialadenitis, among which essential symptoms of Sjögren's syndrome (disease) have been distinguished, has lead the author to a conclusion that Sjögren's syndrome and disease develop as a symptom complex in the presence of all chronic sialadenitis forms, i.e., parenchymatous, interstitial, and sialodochitis.