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Basophilia
Classification and external resources
ICD-10	D 75.8
ICD-9	288.65
DiseasesDB	29698

Basophilia is a condition where the basophil quantity is abnormally elevated (more than 10¹⁰ basophils per liter of blood).^[1]

Causes

Basophilia as an isolated finding is uncommon. However it is a common feature of myeloproliferative disorders and particularly prominent in chronic granulocytic leukaemia.^[2]

References

^ "Cytoplasmic basophilia". Veterinary Clinical Pathology Image Database. University of Montreal Veterinary College. http://www.medvet.umontreal.ca/clinpath/banq-im/hematology/toxic_neutrophils.htm. Retrieved 2008-09-20.
^ Ravandi, F.; R. Hoffman (2005). "Chapter 17. Phagocytes". in A.V. Hoffbrand et al.. Postgraduate Haematology. Boston: Blackwell Publishing. pp. 296–298. ISBN 1405108215.

Hematologic disease: Monocyte and granulocyte disease (CFU-GM/CFU-Baso/CFU-Eos), including immunodeficiency (D70-D71, 288)

Monocytes/
macrophages

↑	Histiocytosis · Chronic granulomatous disease -cytosis: Monocytosis

↓	-penia: Monocytopenia

Granulocytes

↑	-cytosis: granulocytosis (Neutrophilia, Eosinophilia/Hypereosinophilic syndrome, Basophilia, Bandemia)

↓	-penia: Granulocytopenia/agranulocytosis (Neutropenia/Kostmann syndrome · Eosinopenia · Basopenia)

PBD

chemotaxis/degranulation (Leukocyte adhesion deficiency, Chediak–Higashi syndrome)
respiratory burst (Chronic granulomatous disease, Myeloperoxidase deficiency)

myeloid navs: cells/physio, disease of RBCs+megakaryocytes/monocytes+granulocytes/neoplasia, symptoms+signs/eponymous

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