Six Cases of Permanent Alopecia After Various Conditioning Regimens Commonly Used in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

    September 2007 in “ Bone marrow transplantation ”
    MJ Machado, Jan S. Moreb, Shahab Khan
    Studysummary Certain chemotherapy drugs can cause permanent hair loss in stem cell transplant patients.
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