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Abstract
Four patients with multiple myeloma refractory to conventional chemotherapy received
high-dose melphalan. All experienced multiple oral complications. Extensive neutropenic
ulceration and orofacial herpes simplex virus infection caused considerable morbidity
in three patients during prolonged periods of neutropenia.
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