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Original Article

Pilocarpine Hydrochloride for Symptomatic Relief of Xerostomia Due to Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease or Total-Body Irradiation After Bone-Marrow Transplantation for Hematologic Malignancies

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Pages 539-543 | Received 30 Apr 1996, Published online: 01 Jul 2009

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