Lorenzo Dioscoridi
University of Florence, Italy
Biography
Lorenzo Dioscoridi, after humanistic study, he successfully completed his Medical Schooling in Florence. He studied and worked at Karolinska University in Stockholm, at Karlova University in Prague and at Niguarda-Ca’ Granda Hospital in Milan. He is now working in Careggi Hospital (Florence) as resident of the last year at the Department of Surgery and Translational Medicine. He is Associate Editor of Pancreas Open Journal since 2015. He started to approach the laser technology since 2011. His main researches are about laser application on pancreatic and hepatic tissues. He is performing experimental studies using ND-YAG laser on pancreatic tissue to thermoablate tumours and cysts and using Holmium laser to destroy biliary stones in the common bile duct. He is using ND-YAG laser clinically to treat liver metastases and hepatocarcinoma.