basophilic leukemia

No consistent chromosome abnormality has been identified for acute basophilic leukemia.

Acute basophilic leukemia.

Acute basophilic leukemia is an AML that exhibits a primary differentiation to basophils.

"Basophilic leukemia" (see text)

Other extremely rare subtypes of AML include acute eosinophilic leukemia and acute basophilic leukemia.

Acute basophilic leukemia is a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia where blasts are accompanied by abnormal basophils in all stages of differentiation.

The morphologic subtypes of AML also include rare types not included in the FAB system, such as acute basophilic leukemia, which was proposed as a ninth subtype, M8, in 1999.