
Luis Fernando Sandoval GarcÃa
Internal Medicine Msc, Instituto Guatemalteco de Seguridad Social (IGSS), Guatemala
Biography
Luis Fernando Sandoval graduated of general medicine from Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (San Carlos University of Guatemala), with a master degree, cum laude and chief of residents in Internal Medicine at IGSS. He works as Internal Medicine Attending Physician in the same institute, and as professor in Universidad Francisco Marroquin (Francisco Marroquin University). Locally he has published researches about gastric cancer, esophageal varices, cirrhosis and HCC. He has showed the first epidemiological formal evidence of the non-cirrhotic HCC at IGSS and Guatemala. The recent data of HCC has opened the curiosity of international researches for seeking the etiology of these neoplastic lesions.
Abstract
Abstract : Hepatocarcinoma in Guatemala Contrasting Global Epidemiology