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Acute basophilic leukemia presenting with abnormal liver function tests and the absence of blast cells in the
R A Scolyer1, M Brun, J D'Rozario
1Department of Anatomical Pathology, Canberra Hospital, Garran, ACT, Australia.
Pathology
|March 31, 2000
Abstract:
Acute basophilic leukemia is an uncommon form of acute leukemia, rarely occurring as a de novo disease. We describe a case of de novo acute basophilic leukemia occurring in a 47-year-old man who presented with abnormal liver function tests in the absence of leukemic infiltration of the liver. We postulate that this presentation occurred as a consequence of pathophysiological features of the malignant basophilic blast cells.