## BACKGROUND. Oral and gastrointestinal (GI) mucositis can affect up to 100% of patients undergoing high-dose chemotherapy and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, 80% of patients with malignancies of the head and neck receiving radiotherapy, and a wide range of patients receiving chemotherap
The role of basic oral care and good clinical practice principles in the management of oral mucositis
β Scribed by Deborah B. McGuire; Maria Elvira P. Correa; Judith Johnson; Patricia Wienandts
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 113 KB
- Volume
- 14
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0941-4355
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