Indolent extranodal B-NHL CD20 positive MALT lymphoma in a patient with primary Sjögren’s syndrome with a good response to rituximab treatment

Abstract

sjögren’s syndrome (ss) is a chronic autoimmune disease in which chronic lymphocytic infiltration leads to progressive destruction of the exocrine glands and consequently causes the dry syndrome. The most commonly affected are the lacrimal and salivary glands. less often, ss presents with the symptoms of exocrine glands of other localisation, arthritis, myositis, vasculitis involving the skin and the nervous system, interstitial lung disease