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Oral Graft-Versus-Host Disease

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Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) as a consequence of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is covered in this chapter. The different types of GVHD and late complications are also described with relevant management strategies.

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  1. Department of Orofacial Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Alessandro Villa

  2. Division of Oral Medicine and Dentistry, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA

    Amal Bajonaid

  3. Department of Oral Medicine Infection and Immunity, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

    Amal Bajonaid

  4. Department of Diagnostic Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Jazan University, Jazan, Saudi Arabia

    Amal Bajonaid

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  1. Oral Medicine and Oral Oncology, Griffith University, QLD, Australia

    Raj Nair

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Villa, A., Bajonaid, A. (2022). Oral Graft-Versus-Host Disease. In: Nair, R. (eds) Orofacial Supportive Care in Cancer . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86510-8_14

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