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Hirabayashi, S., Kondo, T., Oka, T. et al. Successful treatment of severe acute gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease complicated by cytomegalovirus gastroenteritis with intra-arterial steroid infusion. Ann Hematol 95, 1373–1375 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-016-2686-y
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