Table 5. Association of the ANA screening pattern with the clinical diagnosis.
ANA, antinuclear antibody; MCTD, mixed connective tissue disorder; PBC, primary biliary cirrhosis; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus
| ANA screening patterns and the number of patients in parenthesis (n = 82) | Diagnosis | |||||||||||||
| MCTD | PBC | SLE | Rheumatoid arthritis | Sjogren's syndrome | Systemic sclerosis | Others | ||||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| Centromere (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 100 | 0 | 0 |
| Homogenous (7) | 2 | 28.6 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 42.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14.3 | 1 | 14.3 |
| Nucleolar (11) | 1 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 72 |
| Speckled (49) | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 26.5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8.1 | 28 | 57.1 |
| Others (13) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7.7 | 2 | 15.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7.7 | 9 | 69.2 |