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Assistant Professor, Pathology and Immunology Peters Building 300H Office: 362-0127 E-mail: dcao@path.wustl.edu Pub Med Search

Service to the Department
	2007 - Present	Director, Research Immunohistochemical Lab
	2007 - Present	Surgical Pathology

Diagnostic Expertise
	Gynecologic Pathology, Urologic Pathology and Pancreatic pathology

Clinical Interest
	Anatomic and Molecular Pathology - General Surgical Pathology
	Anatomic and Molecular Pathology - Pancreatic Pathology
	Anatomic and Molecular Pathology - Gynecological Pathology
	Anatomic and Molecular Pathology - Genitourinary Pathology

Selected Publications
	Wang F, Liu A, Peng Y, Rakheja D, Wei L, Xue D, Allan RW, Molberg KH, Li J, Cao D.. Diagnostic Utility of SALL4 in Extragonadal Yolk Sac Tumors: An Immunohistochemical Study of 59 Cases With Comparison to Placental-like Alkaline Phosphatase, Alpha-fetoprotein, and Glypican-3.. Am J Surg Pathol. 2009;33:1529-1539, 2009 Abstract
	Cao D, Humphrey PA, Allan RW. SALL4 is a novel sensitive and specific marker for metastatic germ cell tumors, with particular utility in detection of metastatic yolk sac tumors.. Cancer. 2009;15(12):2640-51., 2009 Abstract
	Arroyo MR, Podda A, Cao D, Rodriguez MM.. Placental site trophoblastic tumor in the ovary of a young child with isosexual precocious puberty.. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2009; 12(1): 73-76., 2009 Abstract
	Kibel AS, Dehdashti F, Katz MD, Klim AP, Grubb RL, Humphrey PA, Siegel C, Cao D, Gao F, Siegel BA.. Prospective study of [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography for staging of muscle-invasive bladder carcinoma.. J Clin Oncol. 2009;27(26):4314-20, 2009 Abstract
	Cao D, Guo S, Allan RW, Molberg KH, Peng Y. SALL4 Is a Novel Sensitive and Specific Marker of Ovarian Primitive Germ Cell Tumors and Is Particularly Useful in Distinguishing Yolk Sac Tumor From Clear Cell Carcinoma.. Am J Surg Pathol. 2009;33(6):894-904., 2009 Abstract
	Cao D, Li J, Guo CC, Allan RW, Humphrey PA. SALL4 Is a Novel Diagnostic Marker for Testicular Germ Cell Tumors.. Am J Surg Pathol. 2009;33(7):1065-1077., 2009 Abstract
	Mei K, Liu A, Allan RW, Wang P, Lane Z, Abel TW, Wei L, Cheng H, Guo S, Peng Y, Rakheja D, Wang M, Ma J, Rodriguez MM, Li J, Cao D. Diagnostic utility of SALL4 in primary germ cell tumors of the central nervous system: a study of 77 cases.. Mod Pathol. 2009 Oct 9. [Epub ahead of print], 2009 Abstract
	Cheung WL, Cao D.. Colonic-type adenocarcinoma arising in a primary retroperitoneal mature cystic teratoma.. Pathol Int. 2008;58(12):792-6., 2008 Abstract
	Cao D, Polyak K, Halushka MK, Nassar H, Kouprina N, Iacobuzio-Donahue C, Wu X, Sukumar S, Hicks J, De Marzo A, Argani P. Serial analysis of gene expression of lobular carcinoma in situ identifies down regulation of claudin 4 and overexpression of matrix metalloproteinase 9.. Breast Cancer Res. 2008;10(5):R91., 2008 Abstract
	Cao D, Tsangaris TN, Kouprina N, Wu LS, Balch CM, Vang R, Argani P. The Superficial Margin of the Skin-Sparing Mastectomy for Breast Carcinoma: Factors Predicting Involvement and Efficacy of Additional Margin Sampling.. Annals of Surgical Oncology 15:1330-1340., 2008 Abstract
	Cao D, Ashfaq R, Goggins MG, Hruban RH, Kern SE and Iacobuzio-Donahue CA.. Differential Expression of Multiple Genes in Association with MADH4/DPC4/SMAD4 Inactivation in Pancreatic Cancer.. Int J Clin Exp Pathol. 2008;1(6):510-7., 2008 Abstract
	Lollar K, Farrag TY, Cao D, Niparko J, Tufano RP.. Langerhans cell histiocytosis of the thyroid gland.. Am J Otolaryngol.29(3):201-4., 2008 Abstract
	Lee KM, Cao D (co-first author), Itami A, Pour PM, Hruban RH, Maitra A, Ouellette MM. Class III beta-tubulin, a marker of resistance to paclitaxel, is overexpressed in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and intraepithelial neoplasia.. Histopathology.51(4):539-46., 2007 Abstract
	Cao D, Zhang Q, Wu LS, Salaria SN, Winter JW, Hruban RH, Goggins MS, Abbruzzese JL, Maitra A, Ho L. Prognostic significance of maspin in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: tissue microarray analysis of 223 surgically resected cases. Mod Pathol. 20(5):570-8., 2007 Abstract
	Lai V, Farrag TY, Cao D, Aygun N, Boahene K, Tufano RP. Synovial sarcoma of the infratemporal fossa.. Am J Otolaryngol.28(6):444-7., 2007 Abstract
	Cao D, Antonescu C, Wong G, Winter J, Maitra A, Adsay NV, Klimstra DS, Hruban RH. Positive immunohistochemical staining of KIT in solid-pseudopapillary neoplasms of the pancreas is not associated with KIT/PDGFRA mutations.. Mod Pathol. 19(9):1157-63., 2006 Abstract
	Cao D, Lin C, Woo SH, Vang R, Tsangaris TN, Argani P.. Separate cavity margin sampling at the time of initial breast lumpectomy significantly reduces the need for reexcisions.. Am J Surg Pathol. 29(12):1625-32., 2005 Abstract
	Cao D, Wilentz RE, Abbruzzese JL, Ho L, Maitra A.. Aberrant expression of maspin in idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease is associated with disease activity and neoplastic transformation.. Int J Gastrointest Cancer.36(1):39-46., 2005 Abstract
	Begum S, Cao D, Gillison M, Zahurak M, Westra WH.. Tissue distribution of human papillomavirus 16 DNA integration in patients with tonsillar carcinoma.. Clin Cancer Res. 11(16):5694-9., 2005 Abstract
	Cao D, Hafez M, Berg K, Murphy K, Epstein JI.. Little or no residual prostate cancer at radical prostatectomy: vanishing cancer or switched specimen?: a microsatellite analysis of specimen identity.. Am J Surg Pathol. 29(4):467-73., 2005 Abstract
	Cao D, Maitra A, Saavedra JA, Klimstra DS, Adsay NV, Hruban RH.. Expression of novel markers of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in pancreatic nonductal neoplasms: additional evidence of different genetic pathways.. Mod Pathol. 18(6):752-61., 2005 Abstract
	Cao D, Srodon M, Montgomery EA, Kurman RJ.. Lipomatous variant of angiomyofibroblastoma: report of two cases and review of the literature.. Int J Gynecol Pathol. 24(2):196-200., 2005 Abstract
	Cao D, Ji H, Ronnett BM.. Expression of mesothelin, fascin, and prostate stem cell antigen in primary ovarian mucinous tumors and their utility in differentiating primary ovarian mucinous tumors from metastatic pancreatic mucinous carcinomas in the ovary.. Int J Gynecol Pathol. 24(1):67-72., 2005 Abstract
	Singer G, Stöhr R, Cope L, Dehari R, Hartmann A, Cao DF, Wang TL, Kurman RJ, Shih IeM.. Patterns of p53 mutations separate ovarian serous borderline tumors and low- and high-grade carcinomas and provide support for a new model of ovarian carcinogenesis: a mutational analysis with immunohistochemical correlation.. Am J Surg Pathol. 2005;29(2):218-24., 2005 Abstract
	Cao D, Hustinx SR, Sui G, Bala P, Sato N, Martin S, Maitra A, Murphy KM, Cameron JL, Yeo CJ, Kern SE, Goggins M, Pandey A, Hruban RH.. Identification of novel highly expressed genes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas through a bioinformatics analysis of expressed sequence tags.. Cancer Biol Ther. 3(11):1081-9., 2004 Abstract
	Hustinx SR, Cao D (co-first author), Maitra A, Sato N, Martin ST, Sudhir D, Iacobuzio-Donahue C, Cameron JL, Yeo CJ, Kern SE, Goggins M, Mollenhauer J, Pandey A, Hruban RH.. Differentially expressed genes in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas identified through serial analysis of gene expression.. Cancer Biol Ther. 3(12):1254-61, 2004 Abstract
	Parwani AV, Cao D, Epstein JI.. Pathologic quiz case: a 35-year-old man with hematuria. Paraganglioma involving the prostate.. Arch Pathol Lab Med.128(8):e104-6, 2004 Abstract
	Wang LF, Zhu HD, Miao SY, Cao DF, Wu YW, Zong SD, Koide SS.. Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel testis-specific nucleoporin-related gene.. Arch Androl. 1999;42(2):71-84, 1999 Abstract