E Arav

Publications (3)0.77 Total impact

• Article: [How to optimize lymph node dissection in colorectal cancers. A technique for simple and efficacious clarification].

  E Arav, M Picot, E De La Tour Du Pin, N Yaziji, E Majek, M Patey, M Pluot, M Diebold
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  ABSTRACT: Studies relating to the prognosis of colorectal carcinomas insist on the quality of mesocolic examination and on the frequency of metastases in minute lymph nodes. The aim of our study was to evaluate an easy, rapid and new clearance method recently described by Koren et al. Twenty-one surgical specimens for colorectal carcinomas have been investigated. After lymph node examination with the traditional method, the mesocolic fat was immersed in a clearing solution. After 6 hours, lymph nodes stood out as white chalky nodules, and were dissected. By the traditional method 182 lymph nodes were detected and 89 additional lymph nodes after clearing. In one case, the detection of a metastasis in lymph node after clearing allowed to upstage the tumour from Dukes B (N0) to Dukes C (N+). This easy and inexpensive method allows the detection of minute lymph nodes and helps to establish a more accurate staging.
  Annales de Pathologie 05/1999; 19(2):147-50. · 0.25 Impact Factor
• Article: [Incidental discovery of asymptomatic Loeffler fibroplastic endocarditis. Report of a case].

  C Pop, S Tassan, E Arav, D Metz, B Baehrel, M Pluot, J Elaerts
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  ABSTRACT: The authors report a case of fibroplastic endocarditis discovered during echocardiography in an asymptomatic patient in the context of assessment of systematized electrocardiographic modifications. The diagnosis, strongly suspected on the basis of the cardiac MRI findings, was finally confirmed by endocardial biopsy.
  Annales de Cardiologie et d Angéiologie 01/1999; 47(10):728-31. · 0.28 Impact Factor
• Article: [Bronchial epidermoid carcinoma with unusual disclosure].

  D Perdu, E Varini, B Louis, F Lavaud, A Prevost, E Bongrain, E Arav, M D Diebold
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  ABSTRACT: Dissemination has often occurred before the diagnosis of bronchopulmonary cancer. Pancreatic metastases are exceptional and are very rarely the revealing manifestation. The authors report a case of a tumour of the pancreas which led to the discover of an bronchogenic epidermoid carcinoma. The relationship between these two tumours lead to the proposed hypothesis of pancreatic metastasis of a bronchogenic carcinoma. Although this situation is rare, the preoperative work-up for bronchogenic carcinoma should include computed tomography of the pancreas if the abdominal echography does not allow complete visualization of the pancreas in cases with suggestive digestive disorders. If a tumour is observed in the pancreas, scan-guided needle biopsy should be performed to enable the histological examination.
  Revue de Pneumologie Clinique 02/1994; 50(1):29-31. · 0.24 Impact Factor