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Successful treatment of a refractory skin ulcer in chronic cutaneous GvHD after allogeneic HSCT with split-thickness skin allografting from the stem cell donor

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Ammer, J., Prantl, L., Holler, B. et al. Successful treatment of a refractory skin ulcer in chronic cutaneous GvHD after allogeneic HSCT with split-thickness skin allografting from the stem cell donor. Bone Marrow Transplant 47, 1368–1369 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2012.16

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