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Research and Clinical Interests

Dr. Das' clinical interests are in cytopathology and general surgical pathology with emphasis on hematopoietic disorders.

Selected Publications

Rapkiewicz A, Gorokhovsky R, Farcon E, Das K. Cytology of metastatic prostate cancer following orchiectomy and antiandrogen therapy: a diagnostic challenge. Diagn Cytopathol. 2008 Jul;36(7):499-502. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 18528888.

Fitzhugh VA, Mirani N, Aisner S, Koneru B, Das K. Preoperative fine needle aspiration cytology diagnosis of microcystic adenoma of the pancreas: fact or fiction? A report of 2 cases. Acta Cytol. 2008 Mar;52(2):240-6. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 18500004.

Rapkiewicz A, Wen H, Sen F, Das K. Cytomorphologic examination of anaplastic large cell lymphoma by fine-needle aspiration cytology. Cancer Cytopathology. 2007 Dec 25;111(6):499-507. Cited in Pubmed; PMID 17941004.

Korah R, Das K, Lindy ME, Hameed MR, Wieder R. Coordinate loss of fibroblast growth factor 2 and laminin 5 expression during neoplastic progression of mammary duct epithelium. Human Pathology. 2007;38:154-160.

Ferrante JM, Rovi S, Das K, Kim S. Factors Associated with Timeliness in Follow-up After Abnormal Mammogram. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine. 2007;20 (1):52-59.

Darko A, Das K, Bhalla R, Heller D. Carcinosarcoma of the Ureter: Report of a case with unusual histology and review of the literature. International Journal of Urology. 2006 Dec;13(12):1528-31.

Swaminathan S, Imrit K, Green J, Das K. Concomitant disseminated histoplasmosis and cryptococcosis in a person with AIDS. AIDS Read. 2006 Nov;16(11):602-6.

He M, Das K, Blacksin M, Benevenia J, Hameed M. A novel translocation involving placental growth factor gene is identified in epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. Cancer, Genetics and Cytogenetics. 2006 Jul 15;168(2):150-4.

Hameed MR, Blacksin M, Das K, Patterson F, Benevenia J, Aisner S. Cortical Chondroblastoma: Report of a Case and literature review of this lesion in unusual locations. Skeletal Radiol. 2006 May;35(5):295-7. Epub 2006 Feb 25.

Qian YW, Malliah R, Lee HJ, Das K, Mirani N, Hameed M. A t(12;17) Translocation in an Extraorbital Giant Cell Angiofibroma. Cancer Genet Cytogenet. 2006 Mar;165(2):157-60.

Das K, Mirani N, Hameed MR, Pliner, L, Aisner SC. Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology of Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma utilizing ThinPrep® Liquid based sample and cytospin preparations: A case confirmed by FKHR Break Apart Rearrangement by FISH probe. Diagnostic Cytopathology. 2006;34(10):704-706.

Paiyne S, Kim S, Das K, Mirani N. A 36-Year-Old Female with a Unilateral Breast Mass. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. 2006;130(1):e1-2.

Singh PC, Bryan M, Shoor RK, Das K, Hameed MR, Kapila R, Perlman A, Norris JW. A Twenty six year old Trinidadian woman with Dizziness, Nausea and Vomiting. New Jersey Medicine. 2005 Feb;102(1-2):27–34.

Das, K., Fisher, A., Wilson, A., de la Torre, Seguel, J., Koneru, B. Primary non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma of the Bile Ducts mimicking Cholangiocarcinoma: Report of Two Cases and A Review of the Literature. Surgery. 2003 Sep;134(3):496-500.

Reichman, T.W., Das, K., Hameed, M., Harrison, L.E. Gangliocytic paraganglioma: A rare duodenal tumor. Surgical Rounds. 2003;7:312-6.

Selected Books

Das K, Burday M, Heller D. The pathology of cervical inflammatory lesions. In: Singer A, editor. The Cervix. 2nd Edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing; 2006.

Organizational Associations

College of American Pathologists; American Society of Clinical Pathology; United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology; American Society of Cytopathology

Selected Awards

Leo M. Davidoff Society award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Medical Students 

Hospital Affiliations

Bellevue Hospital