Korean J Med.
2001 Sep;61(3):293-297.
A case of basophilic crisis in a patient with chronic myelogenous leukemia
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- 1Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
- 2Department of Clinical Pathology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) is a clonal disorder of pluripotent hematopoietic stem cell. Transformation of CML can take place at different stages of stem cell development. The common terminal event in CML is blastic crisis in the majority of cases. Basophilic crisis of CML is very rare event and we experienced a case in 48-year-old patient with philadelphia chromosome positive CML. He had received conservative treatment for 3 years. In the basophilic crisis phase, the WBC count was 64,800 /mm3 with 70 % basophils in the peripheral blood and 43.6% in bone marrow. These basophils had left-shifted maturation. Cytogenetic study revealed the philadelphia chromosome without other abnormalities.
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