in chronic myelogenous leukemia (cml), the mature granulocytes originate from a stem cell line harboring an abnormal chromosome, therefore it is possible that metabolic-functional abnormalities occur in the morphologically mature cells. in the present study, the phagocytic activity including intracellular killing, nitro blue tetrazolium (nbt) reduction, and phagocytosis were studied in 37 cml p...
