[Current viewpoints of Sjögren's syndrome]

The authors discuss the pathology, diagnosis and different clinical manifestations of Sjögren syndrome on the basis of a case report in which the patient presented extraglandular pathology and degeneration into lymphoma. It is stressed that Sjögren syndrome is often associated with other diseases of the connective tissue such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus erythematodes disseminatus. Degeneration into lymphoma is often seen in patients presenting Sjögren's syndrome since many years.