Oral mucositis induced by anticancer treatments: physiopathology and treatments
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Oral mucositis induced by anticancer treatments: physiopathology and treatments
Oral mucositis is a frequent and devastating side effect of anticancer treatments. It impairs the patient's quality of life and also can be life threatening because severe infections and delayed or incomplete anticancer treatments may result. This problem has been largely overlooked and underestimated in the past. However, recently studies have been performed to precisely identify the epidemiol...
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1Department of Dental Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Liège, Quai Godfroid Kurth 45, 4020 Liege, Belgium 2Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon 3Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Aichi-Gakuin University, 2-11 Suemori-dori, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya, Aichi-ken 464-8651, Japan 4CITS-Center of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1176-6336
DOI: 10.2147/tcrm.2006.2.2.159