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Oral mucositis due to graft-versus-host disease

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Link to WHO Definition

Oral mucositis due to graft-versus-host disease – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/238544289

This is the painful inflammation and ulceration of the mucous membranes lining the digestive tract, usually as an adverse effect of chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment for cancer, due to a common complication following an allogeneic tissue transplant.