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Vokurka, S., Svoboda, T., Jungova, A. et al. Oral cryotherapy can significantly reduce oral mucositis but not acute GVHD incidence in Flu/Mel conditioning allo-SCT. Bone Marrow Transplant 47, 739–741 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/bmt.2011.156
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